Quotes About Suffering

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

What a terrible thing life can be.

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life?

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.