Quotes About Suffering

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.