Quote by O.C. McSwite

“understanding the ultimate source of your suffering doesn’t, by itself, help very much.”

— Robert Wright

“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We are penned…

— Bill Hopkins

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth

“Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.”

— Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

“Suffering goes beyond pain. It resides in the mind. It results from how we interpret what happens to us, not from the situation itself.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal

“There comes a time when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in this world, even the innocent may be forced to…

— Jessica Skye Davies

“is no benefit in denying the sufferings of future lives; when they actually descend upon me it will be too late to protect myself…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“no one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

— Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die

“It is one thing to accept that one is powerless to stop the suffering in the world, but quite another to benefit from what…

— David Liss

“The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding…

— Anonymous

“But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know…

— Tennessee Williams

“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end,…

— Joseph de Maistre