Quotes About Suffering

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

God gave burdens also shoulders.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

I just never really thought there could be something worse than death.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.