Suffering Quotes

You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. You nee...

It is for people we care nothing about that we demand happiness on any terms: with our friends, our ...

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

[But] we inherit a whole system of desires which do not necessarily contribute God's will but which,...

Some modern theologians have, quite rightly, protested against an excessively moralistic interpretat...

Do we suppose that they can do Him any good or fear, like the chorus in MIlton, that human irreveren...

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves is only insoluble s...

The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live...

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all th...

The first condition, then, of what is called a selfish love among men is lacking with God. He has no...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

When Christianity says that God loves man it means that God LOVES man: not that He has some 'disinte...

If pain sometimes shatters the creature's false self sufficiency, yet in supreme Trial or Sacrifice'...

The causes of this distribution I do not know; but from our present point of view it ought to be cle...

[re: the social ethics of Christianity]"...the doctrine that imagined heaven on earth is necessary f...

Yet perhaps even this view falls short of the truth. It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made ...

God's will is determined by His wisdom which always perceives, and His goodness which always embrace...

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our plea...

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of ...

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deservin...

There is a paradox about tribulation in Christianity. Blessed are the poor, but by judgement (i.e., ...

In a sense, [Christianity] creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no pr...

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers mor...

The cadence of suffering has begun.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ...

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essen...

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prosp...

When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away you...

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happen...

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart...

Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; tha...

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...

Our sin is our resistance to going along with God's initiative in making suffering reparative. We ar...

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks witho...

My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwe...

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will...

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,—Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe al...

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a go...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will ...

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. An...

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was ...

Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

he who will not economize will have to agonize

All I want to convey to anyone who is suffering while they're young is that sometimes you get a repr...

You are the call and I am the answer,You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,You are the night, and I...

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue wh...

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh...

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will...

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in vie...

When most people think about the future, they dream up ways that they might live happier lives. But ...

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the pe...

He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. Wha...

But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextra...

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have...

People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call...

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day af...

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or ...

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable ad...

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wound...

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there wer...

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting g...

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state...

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently ...

Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we...

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul ...

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the ligh...

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exp...

Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following ...

To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegia...

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom t...

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and...

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those thin...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

And so beneath the weight lay IAnd suffered death, but could not die.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,Sharing-oh,...

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer ...

If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so m...

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had ...

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburd...

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an...

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvi...

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle,...

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na ...

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that o...

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUnt...