3,815 Quotes About Suffering

Dying sometimes feels like the only way out. It’s that I-just-can’t-take-it-anymore feeling, and you’re tired of letting everyone down, so you just hit your breaking point and you want to die. I don’t mean that in a selfish way To me, suicide isn’t selfish. The people who say it is selfish early have never been suicidal, nor have they endured a mental illness.

When good leaders suffer; people show empathy, but when bad leaders suffer, people throw party.

Contrast is the spiritual spice of life.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

Without pain we cannot realize the opportunities we are given.

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted.

Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can purify."“It can also fuck you up,” said Shadow.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.