Quotes about Suffering
It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.
- Emily Bronte
Be with me always, Take any form, Drive me mad, only don't leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you
- Emily Bronte
You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
- Emily Bronte
My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself.
- Emily Bronte
You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan would have parted us, you, of your own will did it.
- Emily Bronte
How often am I to call you? There are only a few red ashes now. Joseph! come this moment.' Vigorous puffs, and a resolute stare into the grate, declared he had no ear
- Emily Bronte
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
- Epictetus
Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.
- Epictetus
I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.
- Erica Jong
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
- Rob Bell
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
- Erwin McManus
The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
- Rick Warren