Quotes About Suffering

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Man must suffer to be wise.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.