Suffering Quotes

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.

Depression, the Cancer that gnaws at your Body, Mind and Soul.

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies.

It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

The Lord has heard your cries. He will help you.

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me.Amen

Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.

The choices we make determines our destiny.

Suffering is a part of real life lesson.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

Life is about discovering things worth dying for.

Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

After many paths and many years, perhaps many lifetimes, we become aware of the sacredness of our suffering.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

When in place of love you have grieves. And in place of glory nonfulfillment of hopes you earn, know that it's a natural catastrophe preparing you for distinguished conditions." - Darmie Orem

For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.

Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

He would be able to suffer what his son had suffered. He would be able to suffer and his suffering would for an instance displace his grief.

When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...

Those who suffer much, have much to say.

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.