Quotes About Suffering

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

There are some remedies worse than disease.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!

Svein Erik Scheie, Poisoned

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.