Quotes about Suffering
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
- Deepak Chopra
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.
- Elie Wiesel
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
- Victor Hugo
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
- Martin Luther
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- CS Lewis
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
- Euripides
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
- Carl Sagan
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
- Oswald Chambers