Quotes About Suffering

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

Patience is the First Lesson.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.