Suffering Quotes - Page 154

Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

You know what, I'll suffer in silence.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty otherwise. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.

The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or nonhuman. It's regrettable that certain scientists are willing to put their families at risk by choosing to do wasteful animal experiments in this day and age.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.