Quotes About Suffering

There is something about loss and pain that opens the doors of wisdom in your heart, doors that would have remained locked for a whole lifetime.

Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.

No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.

Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

Women's loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.

I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.