Quotes About Suffering

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.