Quotes about Suffering
Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
- Miguel
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
- JC Ryle
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
- John Tillotson
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
- Thomas Merton
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
- Albert Camus
Men die and they are not happy.
- Albert Camus
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
- Aristotle
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
- CS Lewis
If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.
- DL Moody
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
- George Eliot