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Quotes About Suffering

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
~ Randy Newman
It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe
~ Ray Bradbury
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
~ Richard Whately
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert A. Burton
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The lot of man-to suffer and die.
~ Homer
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
~ Homer
We men are wretched things.
~ Homer
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
~ Homer
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
~ Homer
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
~ Homer
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
~ James G. Frazer
Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.
~ James Reston, Jr.
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
~ Jane Austen
Who can judge another man's suffering?
~ Janet Fitch
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
~ John Donne
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.
~ John Steinbeck
It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.
~ John Taylor
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
~ John Webster
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon