Quotes about Suffering
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
- Mother Angelica
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- Khalil Gibran
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
- Heinrich Heine
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
- Isabel Allende
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
- Charles Dickens
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
- Albert Camus