Quotes About Suffering

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.