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Quotes About Suffering

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
~ Emil Cioran
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
~ Paulo Coelho
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.
~ Arlo Guthrie
Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.
~ Akhil Sharma
The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
~ John Blair
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
2020 is getting worse every day. We have lost so many people altogether throughout the world.
~ Tulsi Kumar
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
~ Goran Persson
We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It's not enough to sing and praise God in worship services. Any religion that doesn't encourage us to work together to end the needless suffering all around us is godless.
~ Susan L. Taylor
As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.
~ Kevin DeYoung
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
~ Vince Neil
We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
~ Sukarno
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
~ Iris Chang
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.
~ Clive Barker
You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
~ Asif Ali Zardari
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
~ Kailash Kher
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
~ J. D. Salinger
I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
~ Adam Michnik