Quotes About Suffering

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

An existence transfigured by failure.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Grace flows through wounds.

Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.