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Quotes About Suffering

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?
~ Squidward Tentacles
This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
~ Yasmin Mogahed
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
~ R. D. Laing
I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.
~ Adrian Rogers
Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.
~ Hayley Williams
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
~ Hedda Hopper
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
~ K'naan
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.
~ Thomas Wyatt
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
~ Charles Lamb
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
~ Spike Milligan
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
To live a life half dead, a living death.
~ John Milton
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
~ Karen Armstrong
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
~ Shashi Deshpande
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
~ Georges Duhamel
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
~ Emo Philips
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
~ W. C. Fields
Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
~ Paulo Coelho
What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?
~ Richard Stearns
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
~ Aldous Huxley