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Quotes About Suffering

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
~ Groucho Marx
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!
~ Octavius Winslow
Poverty - the one thing money can't buy
~ John Cooper Clarke
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
~ Mariah Carey
I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...
~ Kanye West
I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
~ Damien Hirst
We don't like trading agony for money
~ Charlie Munger
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
~ Moss Hart
Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.
~ Nomy Arpaly
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
~ Livy
Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
~ David Ogilvy
Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?
~ Jeremy Clarkson
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
~ Garry Trudeau
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
~ Natalia Vodianova
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
~ Henry Rollins
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.
~ John Steinbeck
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
~ Robertson Davies
For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
And these are the sametype of people who killthe innocent andjustify it by saying"They've gone to bewith Jesus now"But we won't talkabout how theycrucified Him, too
~ Phil Volatile
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
~ Spike Milligan