Quotes About Suffering

There is no worse death than the end of hope.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Hope is delicate suffering.

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief.