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Quotes About Suffering

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
~ Gustave Flaubert
If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.
~ James MacDonald
Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.
~ Rick James
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
~ Curtis Jackson
Life just happens. It's what you're believing about life that makes you suffer.
~ Byron Katie
The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.
~ John Eudes
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
~ Laozi
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
~ Bodhidharma
Life without pain has no meaning.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
~ Dante Alighieri
There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.
~ Mike McCready
There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.
~ Pope Francis
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
~ John Calvin
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?
~ Laura Story
Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.
~ Lu Xun
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.
~ Frithjof Schuon
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
~ Ralph Merkle
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
~ Pablo Neruda