Quotes About Suffering

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles.

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.