Quotes about Suffering
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
— Albert Camus
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
— Charles Dickens
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
— Albert Camus
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
— Donald Miller
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams
— Paulo Coelho
The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.
— Peter Kreeft
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
— Albert Camus
History is a bath of blood.
— William James
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
— Oscar Romero