Quotes About Suffering

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

The hardest part of my entire three-year recovery has been knowing that my parents, my brothers, were suffering through this burden of injury and recovery, something I volunteered for that they didn't ask for.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, there has been suffering and hardship on both sides of the generational divide.

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

instead of being the finest creatures on this planet, we have turned into the worst. We kill for pleasure, for love, for hatred, for identity, for God, for just about anything. Which other animal has unleashed so much wanton cruelty, animosity, and bloodshed on this planet?

Happiness is just your constant state of existence. And this is the end of suffering.

lancing the occasional boil, leeching anyone

To me, the hours that pass by each day are just an agony that I want to throw in the trash." ~ Juri Mutou

Is a rope around the neck and a drop from the gallows all that we can do for a guy who lived his life without ever smiling? ~ Inoue

The fault in suffering such torment is his, for his heart's boundless capacity to love was given so that he might direct it toward One possessing an infinite undying beauty. By misusing it and spending it on transitory beings, he has done wrong and suffers the punishment for his fault through the pain of separation.

When you lose control of your body, you have just about lost all you have in this world.

Moved even as I turn in fresh despair from this suffering self I gaze at the moon as the year ends

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

The Dark Night of the Soul.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love thee! Yet these sufferings are as nothing compared to the reward Thou wilt give for them.