Quotes About Suffering

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.