Quotes About Suffering

What can we do without pain in front of happiness?

The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word.

If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well.

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

On se débattait parce qu'on espérait s'en sortir, c'était utilitaire, c'était ignoble. Tandis que la tragédie, c'était gratuit. C'était sans espoir.

The only way to help me stop suffering was to help me die.

I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.

Where there is love, there is pain.

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

Life is a long agonised illness only curable by death

Vulgus semper aeque miserum manet.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

But that immergence is not in the nature of an annihilation. Extinction is not the fulfilment of all this search and passion, suffering and rapture. The game would never have been begun if that were to be its ending.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all — gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame.

Look here and know who you are. Instantly you will find freedom, and this suffering--hitchhiking from womb to womb--will instantly stop. The only way is to look within.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore, Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision.

Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy.

I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.