Quotes About Suffering

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.