Quotes About Suffering

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. The blues didn't have to explain the mystery of pain that I felt; it was there in the songs and voices of singers like Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, in the cries of their guitars.

Those who have suffered most show their eagerness to suffer more.

I want to die." May shook her head. "Let me get a knife." "I've made a horrible mess of things." "Haven't we all? If you don't want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.

Pain is a great philosopher, because it thinks constantly of how to get rid of itself and demands discipline.

We use right pain like a vaccine against the unavoidable pain and suffering that life always sends our way, but the dose must be correct. Asana practice is an opportunity to look at obstacles in practice and life and discover how we can cope with them.

We all have presence of mind when everything goes well, but we need to have presence of mind when something goes wrong. If we face suffering and accept it as a necessary means, all anxiousness disappears.

To do nothing is an action too, with inevitable consequences, and so that is not a way to escape pain and suffering either.

Pain is your guru.

Right pain is not only constructive but also exhilarating and involves challenge, while wrong pain is destructive and causes excruciating suffering.

The same is the case of men, that rise after calamities and misfortunes. For they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men's harms, a redemption of their own sufferings.

I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Beneath the 30 pounds of makeup and corsets and gowns are real beating hearts of real people and they usually come from a place of pain.

Real people live with, you know, being Christians with cancer, Christians with AIDS, and Christians coming back home with limbs missing from war, and Christians being evicted, and Christians losing their homes. And if you don't paint that picture, too, then I think that you are misrepresenting what the faith really can look like.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

Every person in this country is suffering because of bad governance.

I think that what's bizarre to me about life is that sometimes you have to have everything taken away before you experience grace or before you actually recognize that grace can happen to you.

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.