Suffering Quotes

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

When you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad — well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.