Suffering Quotes

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Philip Yancey
- Life
- Different
- Suffering
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa
- War
- Pain
- Loss

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

T. B. Joshua
- Money
- Remember
- Dream
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Men
- Song
- Poetry
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

Daniel Ortega
- People
- Country
- Struggle
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

T. S. Eliot
- Men
- Fighting
- Victory
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- World
- Real
- Pain
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Saint Ignatius
- Pain
- Suffering
- Sickness