Quotes About Suffering

What is to give light must endure burning.

You think your muscles hurt? Try a blade in the belly.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

I've even heard of a guy whose chronic migraine was cured by a bullet to the head. The craziest part of it was that he had actually set out to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head because of the headaches which had persistently refused to yield to treatment

She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.

I put a fish ball in my mouth. My optimism covered the whole ball as if the fish had never died, had never been gutted and rolled into a humiliating shape. To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.