Quotes About Suffering

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Men die and they are not happy.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.