Suffering Quotes

If this love is going to break me, at least make my suffering sweet. I want to know what you taste like in sweltering summer heat.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we’re dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.