People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer! — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us.” — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. — Perry Christie Copy Share Image
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Let us touch each other while we still have hands, palms, forearms, elbows . . . Let us love each other for… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“All the pains are caused from going against the ‘nature’! 'Nature' adjusts everything but one does 'egoism' against ‘nature’!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order,… — Victor Gollancz Copy Share Image
“Those who are in pain – most of the world’s populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing… — Joseph F. Girzone Copy Share Image
Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. — David Deida Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
