Suffering Quotes

"The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain" "A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief" "The healthy man does not torture others, generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers" "A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward" "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." "The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction." "The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow " "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" "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving." "People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death" "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life" "Pain isn't necessarily a fun thing to endure" "The more flesh, the more worms; the more property, the more anxiety; the more wives, the more witchcraft; the more maidservants, the more unchastity; the more slaves, the more robbery" "Those who suffer most cry out the least." "Afflictions are often the result of imprudence." "Pain engraves a deeper memory." "He that sleeps feels not the toothache" "Woe to him that's bystander to his own distress" "Hell is the place where none of your dreams come true"