Quotes about Suffering

Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.

History is riddled with blood and sin.

We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled. My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became 640 Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.

Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness