Quotes About Suffering

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.