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Quotes About Suffering

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
~ George Orwell
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
~ Oscar Wilde
My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
~ Susan Polis Schutz
Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
~ Matthew Scully
We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
~ Powers Boothe
Pain makes people warriors, you just have to hurt enough!
~ Mary-Ellen Peters
So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.
~ Kate Chopin
In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
In deep suffering, I got to know divinity within my soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.
~ Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
Trials teach us patience and patience leads us to a place of hope
~ Paul Gitwaza
Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.
~ Maureen N. McLane
Are you in pain, pray!
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain.
~ Jasmine Sandozz
For those who have known pain and suffering and wondered why it all happened... I don't know the reasons why, I just know that you must keep believing in hope and eventually you will get through.
~ Heather Wolf
So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life.
~ Sunday Adelaja
No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.
~ Mischa Temaul
The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.
~ Auliq Ice
Reality—there's nothing but horror in that.
~ A.L. Kennedy