I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if the...
After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It will not make you strong.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.
I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed under the foot of my disdain.
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.
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspir...
The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the per...
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we ar...
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of ou...
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mi...
