Suffering Quotes

“If there are ranks in suffering, Israel takes precedence of all the nations.”

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

“The only thing that's real is the pain.”

“Afflictions are God's furnace, in which He tries His people, that they may be made partakers of His holiness.”

“You will have to go to the very bottom of his suffering and follow it to its source, you will have to go with him.”

“If it is a gift, it is a gift that one would be glad to give back.”

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

“Exile is a living death, a death without a tomb, a burial without earth.”

“The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art will be, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.”

“Affliction is an uprooting of life, a more or less attenuated equivalent of death.”

“God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures.”

“The worst pain a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.”

“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?”

“What is there to do? We are all in the same boat, in a sea of troubles.”

“Death, I hold, is better than a miserable life.”

“Sometimes you can't tell the difference between feeling alive and feeling cursed.”

“To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!”

“There is a secret down here, in this nightmare of the mills, that is not for me to know.”

“The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.”

“It was a cry of pain, an anguished plea for help from a woman who felt she was drowning.”