Quotes About Suffering

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.