Quotes About Suffering

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Love was like a toothache.

There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

Her voice, her smile, her every gesture was utterly familiar to him: these traces of her presence had danced in his dreams for years, and now he beheld them with waking eyes. Fate is cruel, but it's a cruelty that suffuses sweetness into the suffering.

already I know it will hurt this is the hurt country

heroes exterminated each other for the benefit of other people who were not heroes.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

But if you do not learn how to love, everywhere you go you are going to suffer.

Those who violate these laws, criticizing and complaining, are utterly deluded, and are the cause of their own suffering.

Will pain not be conquered by reason, when it is defeated by a smile?

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for HSPs.

The truth that many people do not understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. —Thomas Merton

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore….

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

We overlook the two major factors: they rarely know what we are talking about when we speak of freedom in the abstract; their most pressing problem, from birth to death, now as it always has been, is hunger.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila's suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.