Quotes About Suffering

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

No man is without his load of trouble.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.