3,815 Quotes About Suffering

What ages you faster, suffering or experience?

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.

They had spent a few years in Paris, but they had still to undergo a real education — one which no school, lycee or university could supply: they had still to undergo their education in suffering. Then they’d be ready to understand what this was all about.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

Jesus can identify with our weaknesses or failures because He shared in our humanity in the flesh.

Intentional praise reveals a faith that believes in God’s goodness above any sorrow we may face.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?