Quotes about Suffering

A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space.

A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for.

Unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

Thus far we have shown that the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? —"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.