Quotes About Suffering

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

I've loved you, as long as I've know you. Wanted you. Needed you. But I hit rock bottom when I had to let you go. I thought I lost you, life had no meaning for me -Wolf Patterson-

A heart's a heavy burden

for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.

All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy? Change that diet, on purpose, train mentally to refocus the mind, and one nourishes the brain.

Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.

All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy? Change that diet, on purpose, train mentally to refocus the mind, and one nourishes the brain. Rabbi