Quotes About Suffering

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.