Quotes About Suffering

Human life must be some form of mistake

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Life is suffering.

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

This can't be life.

Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss