Quotes About Suffering

A Christian is a person who decides to face and live through suffering.

The gospel offers a different view of suffering: in suffering we enter the depths; we are at the heart of things; we are near to where Christ was on the cross.

The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His."5

To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it in the face of the evidence of its never-ending troubles.

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.

Dat ole davil, sea.

The damned don't cry.

The most devastating thing about suffering is that it is relative. There is always someone who hurts more, someone who hurts less.

You can only force a smile for so long until it becomes a grimace.

The longer we suffer, the more we dwell on suffering – eventually suffering and the thought of suffering eclipse each other entirely…

An argument for or against suicide? One lives, in spite of life.

Suddenly a phrase jumps out: "…I would say be very wary of anyone telling you you're suffering for a reason…" I forget the question that this was the response to.

One senses that for Schopenhauer, the world does exist, and it's horrible, and there's not much one can do about it.

if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free.

In a way one is reminded of the pretty little birdhouses for the starlings set out by the tenderhearted butchers in the Auschwitz barracks.)

The sum total of pain in the world is unlimited.

Maybe the world wasn't as good as it should be. There was cruelty in it, and suffering. And life was short--far shorter than was fair... But here and now, it was perfect. And really, there was nothing more important than that.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.