Suffering Quotes

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

~ Paulo Coelho

Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.

~ Emily Thorne

Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.

~ Dhaval Gajera

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

~ Mother Teresa

If you don't accept and respect your suffering, it isn't going anywhere.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your suffering needs to be respected.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Eons of suffering, brutality and struggle have paved the way through the corridors of time to create this moment, where you exist as an exalted expression of life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

~ Jim George

Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Do not be a go along, get along person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!

~ Bryant Mcgill

They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition, just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

~ Albert Camus

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

~ Eleanor Catton

At some point, we have each said through our tears, I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

~ Paulo Coelho

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy -- a little boy!

~ Dale Carnegie

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

~ José Saramago

It's a difficult truth to face that some people choose to define themselves by the pain they feel or the wrongs they've suffered. They're not going through hard times so much as making all times hard.

~ Dani Harper

A troubled life beats having no life at all

~ Richard M. Cohen

I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Think about the suffering we cause ourselves internally through getting angry or jealous.

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

~ L.m. Montgomery

What ages you faster, suffering or experience?

~ Leila Aboulela

we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

~ John Piper

She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy earth!

~ Joseph Heller

Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.

~ Girdhar Joshi

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

~ Gregory David Roberts

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

~ Lillian Smith

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

~ M. Scott Peck

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

~ Mary Oliver

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.

~ V.c. Andrews

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I don't complain about the horror of life, I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi