Quotes About Suffering

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.