Quotes About Suffering

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

He was dying all his life.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

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

People can bear anything.

At any rate, you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.