Quotes about Suffering
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
— Albert Camus
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
— St. Jerome
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
— James Allen
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
— John Donne
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
— JC Ryle
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?
— John Tillotson
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
— Thomas Merton
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
— Albert Camus
Men die and they are not happy.
— Albert Camus