Quotes About Suffering

Vital spark of heav'nly flame!Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!

Die of a rose in aromatic pain?

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare?   For this your locks in paper durance bound,   For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100   For this with fillets strain'd your tender head,   And bravely bore the double loads of lead?

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex but not of love, of science but not of "mystery.

Reason's icy intimations, and records of a heart in pain.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

It is easier to find courage for the daring act of a moment, and it requires less inner strength, than does the long patience of enduring physical suffering, deeply driven by a spiritual interest to move forward, disregarding the certainty of encountering again, but with weakened faculties, the same deprivations on the return trip.

The reluctance of so many of today's Germans to court pity for their ancestors' suffering, to invoke the allied bombings and postwar expulsions, is a kind of tacit acknowledgment of how many knew of the Nazi atrocities at the time.

Why don't you put on an animal's pelt and drag me to your house by my hair?

I think I've been broken for a long time. I've lived with this hole in my chest for so long I got used to it.

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself withoutsuffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage,he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.

An old dream is dead but a new one is being born, as a tree that pushes through the solid ground to recede. A new strength, born of pain and suffering, is pulsating in the veins and a new empathy and understanding is being born of past suffering.

It's not that shit happens as other people have said; it's the eternal reality of a legacy in brokenness that was the problem to them.

Warren's guests had learnt about poverty, not from being poor themselves, in places where you did not hear the screams and yelling of help.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

The poet, no doubt, has to learn by suffering, but having learnt, he has then, in my opinion, to help others not to be miserable, but to be happy.

I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard

I cannot help it, — in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

"Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...