Quotes about Suffering

Do you want to hear Jesus speak? Go to where the wounds are. Find wounded people, hurting people, suffering people, and you will find Jesus.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.

The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.