Quotes About Suffering

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Life [had] replaced logic.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.