Quotes About Suffering

Groans that words cannot express" (Rom. 8:26) are often prayers that God cannot refuse. Charles H. Spurgeon

God finds His best soldiers on the mountain of affliction.

Joy sometimes needs pain to give it birth.

Dear believer, after experiencing the terrible valley of suffering, did you depart with the spoils? When you were struck with an injury and you thought you had lost everything, did you trust in God to the point that you came out richer than you were before? Being "more than [a] conqueror" means taking the spoils from the enemy and appropriating them for yourself. What your enemy had planned to use for your defeat, you can confiscate for your own use.

Life is so painful that even when we won happiness, we suffered by imagining miss it.

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.

I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Damon Salvatore

Like a revolving door to hell.

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

I don't think you understand," he said. "I'm going to have you, at any cost. Any cost, Jenny, even if you have to suffer on the way. If I can't force you, I'll persuade you— and I can be very persuasive.

I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.

What kind of world is it that lets a thing like that happen? That lets a girl like Sue get murdered for kicks, or kids in Afghanistan starve, or baby seals get skinned alive? -Matt Honeycutt

Love is painful, pointless and overrated.

She shook her head impatiently; the idea of being in competition with other unhappy people was distasteful to her. It was an argument that her friends sometimes used, very delicately of course—that other people had more reason for grief than she had. As if grief could be measured by its causes, and not by the victim's capacity for suffering!

If life be wretched, it is hard to bear it; if it be happy, it is horrible to lose it ; both come to the same thing.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them.

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." Leon Bloy

Les bêtes sont ce que l'homme a le plus méconnu et le plus opprimé

Dieu n'aurait pas été digne de créer le monde, s'il avait oublié dans le néant l'immense Racaille qui devait un jour le crucifier.