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Quotes About Suffering

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
~ W. H. Auden
Each of us bears his own Hell.
~ Virgil
I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
~ Fiona Dourif
What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
~ Thomas Dekker
I know that my life is going to be hell from here on.
~ Susan Smith
I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I'm just very, very passionate about that.
~ Michael Sorrentino
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
~ Bruno Bauer
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
~ John Berger
No one realizes how much pain is hidden behind my smile.
~ Rakhi Sawant
When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.
~ Per Mertesacker
Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Add the shortage of blankets, warm clothing, and vegetables, and the result was likely to be more suffering and more death than had occurred earlier. The war was not over for Hood's army as it came through the gates of Camp Douglas. Another struggle for survival was beginning, and the odds of success were no better in Chicago than at Franklin or Nashville.
~ George Levy
Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying like a gag. And then the poor fellow was made to fall down and crawl around on his hands and knees like a dog, a laughing stock for Federal soldiers, spies, and camp followers, Bean recalled bitterly.
~ George Levy
the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. ~ Obi Wan Kenobi
~ George Lucas
But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.
~ George MacDonald
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
~ George MacDonald
I should not be surprised, said Mr. Graham, that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are.
~ George MacDonald
Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might live—but live as He lives, by dying as He died who died to Himself.
~ George MacDonald
Life eternal, this lady of thine hath a sore heart, and we cannot help her. Thou art help, O Mighty Love. Speak to her, and let her know thy will, and give her strength to do it, O Father of Jesus Christ, Amen.
~ George MacDonald
Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.
~ George MacDonald
Suddenly pressing both hands on her heart, she fell to the ground, and the mist rose from her and melted in the air. I ran to her. But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast. A moment more and her legs, hurrying from her body, sped away serpents. From her shoulders fled her arms as in terror, serpents also. Then something flew up from her like a bat, and when I looked again, she was gone.
~ George MacDonald
It is with the holiest fear that we should approach the terrible fact of the sufferings of Our Lord. Let no one think that these were less because He was more. The more delicate the nature, the more alive to all that is lovely and true, lawful and right, the more does it feel the antagonism of pain, the inroad of death upon life; the more dreadful is that breach of the harmony of things whose sound is torture.
~ George MacDonald
He rebelled against the highest as if the highest were the lowest—as if the power that could create a heart for bliss, might gloat on its sufferings.
~ George MacDonald
That is why hardships, troubles, disappointments, and all kinds of pain and suffering, are sent to so many of us. We are so full of ourselves, and feel so grand, that we should never come to know what poor creatures we are, never begin to do better, but for the knock-down blows that the loving God gives us. We do not like them, but he does not spare us for that. A Rough Shaking, ch.
~ George MacDonald