Quotes About Suffering

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.

When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Job feels the rod, Yet blesses God.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.