Quotes About Suffering

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am boundUpon a wheel of fire, that mine own tearsDo scald like molten lead.

O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitableSeem to me all the uses of this world.

A little fire is quickly trodden out,Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.

Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

I would fain die a dry death.

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.

Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

Charm ache with air and agony with words.

And my ending is despair,Unless I be reliev'd by prayer,Which pierces so that it assaultsMercy itself and frees all faults.

I will be the pattern of all patience.

They'll give him death by inches.

O! the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

Reckon your weakness as praise of God's power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.