Suffering Quotes

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

suffering is a misunderstood pain

Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well

It's not just the wounded who suffer.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

I almost gave my life long ago for a thingThat has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes—It is strange how often a heart must be brokenBefore the years can make it wise.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.

If you want a sense of purpose for experiencing pressures, use your knowledge of Jesus Christ's comforting, enlivening, energizing presence to be a comfort to others.

Jesus says we are blessed when we are hated, ostracized, insulted, and ridiculed on earth, because of Him.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted.

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

Suffering has a noble purpose.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

Most of the dreams that have suffered to death were murdered by their own owners.

One who walks in blindness and confusion cries out more than one who knows why he is suffering.

Are you so dead inside you don't feel the daily anguish, terror and deathly suffering of millions? What happened to you? You've changed.

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.

We much be greater than what we suffer

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

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

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

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion, " Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

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

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

Your suffering needs to be respected.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

What ages you faster, suffering or experience?

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.