Suffering Quote by Ann Radcliffe

“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been…

— William Styron

“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend…

— Alexandre Dumas

“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive…

— Santa Teresa de Jesús

“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more…

— Thomas Merton

“Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting…

— Bryant McGill

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in spite…

— Walter Miller

“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture; and in no one instance can it continue for any time…

— David Hume

“God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.”

— Timothy W. Tron

“Bodies feel pain; only the mind can suffer. Indeed, it’s possible to be in pain and yet not suffer at all.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal

“we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do…

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr