Quotes About Suffering

He killed himself for wanting to live.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn't I wish you hadn't I wish you'd left me alone.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Awareness signs the warrant for suffering.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Life is a terrible thing, thank God.

And the whole pain flows open and I die.