3,815 Quotes About Suffering

Sufferings are painful when we don’t want them. Once we decide to welcome sufferings as a means to achieve higher goals of life, they become a source of joy.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

There is no such thing as mental health awareness, there is only awareness. Awareness breeds health, whereas callousness breeds more suffering.

Awareness breeds health, whereas callousness breeds more suffering.

There can’t be any formula for happiness because happiness is an effect and not a cause. The same activity, which at one time gave you happiness, may now become a source of suffering. Or often a great suffering ends up becoming a source of joy.

You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

It is a privilege to be called a friend. To be included in someone's private space. To witness both their joy and suffering. To stand with them on good days, and to lie with them on nights they cannot breathe.