Quotes About Suffering

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.