Quotes About Suffering

To justify God's ways to man.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!