Quotes About Suffering

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

To perceive is to suffer.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!