Quotes About 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.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.

In any food crisis, it is the top of the food chain that suffers the most. In the case of farmer's distress, the top of food chain is us - the end consumer.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen.

Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.

When athletes are obsessed with whatever identity niche they've backed themselves into at the expense of showcasing America, everybody suffers. They forget to focus on winning and lose resilience.

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers the sum of our self-regard, stupidity and cruelty.

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

Then suddenly you're left all alone with your body that can't love you and your will that can't save you.