3,815 Quotes About Suffering

Good things can come from thinking about and facing your death. It's about understanding life.

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.

You are the call and I am the answer,You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,You are the night, and I the day. What else? It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete. You and I, What more—? Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.