Quotes About Suffering

Livingstone explored for the rest of his life, enduring fevers, torrential rains, animal attacks, threatening tribes, and countless other hardships. Once when asked how he could make such sacrifices, Livingstone answered, "I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice which Christ made when He left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

I just leave myself entirely in my heavenly Father's hands and have no anxiety about the future. I know that if He sees fit to send me greater suffering, He will give greater grace to bear it.

I don't think any of us are prepared for the bitter pill we're sometimes asked to swallow.

Let this hell be our heaven.

Mubei: Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi [Tombstone: A Record of the Great Chinese Famine of the 60s], Cosmos Books, Hong Kong, 2008.

There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his reason and understanding.

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

La pena va royendo el corazón humano lentamente. La gente cree a menudo que, moviéndose, podrá superarla.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'" He

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number. I have loved and been loved as deeply as a man can hope for. Which makes me a lucky man. It also means that I have suffered. Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

McKenna dropped to her knees, then fell to her side on the asphalt, moaning

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

Nearly a million people take their lives each year. It's not about survival; it's about finding meaning in living. Even in our suffering

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis.