Quotes About Suffering

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.

Hope is a very thin diet.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

Beauty is sometimes born of pain

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.