Quotes About Suffering

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Every man is his own hell.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!