Suffering Quotes

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

The Sorrowful Virgin whose pierced heart mourned the death of Jesus now grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for the creatures of this world laid waste by human power.

I’m drowning. And the air is nowhere to be found. Yet I pretend to breathe anyway.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.