Quotes About Suffering

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Misery is a communicable disease.

If people are suffering, then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.

The iron entered into his soul.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I have trodden the winepress alone.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.