Quotes About Suffering

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.