87 Best Suffering Quotes

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. – The Elder Zosima

Fathers and teachers, I ponder 'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. – The Elder Zosima

I want to suffer so that I may love. – Dmitri Karamazov

People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. – Ivan Karamazov

And now they were in flight from the sun and the drought, and they were slow and blind with suffering.

If you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!

Pain does not matter to a man. – Santiago

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. – Santiago

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. – Santiago

I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela

Let's put a smile on that face! – The Joker

I'm not gonna kill you. I'm just gonna hurt you really, really bad. – The Joker

I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy. – Arthur Fleck

Do you not realize I have had diarrhea since Easters? – Nacho

You've had two pairs of gloves this whole time?! ... Yeah, we're in the Rockies. – Harry Dunne

What was done to me was monstrous. – Evey

My life has been one of great joy and great despair, and I feel I must share both with you. – V

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. – Patrick Bateman

If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it. – Ennis Del Mar

Some things you don't ever get over. Like a scab that never heals. – Karl Childers

The Isenheim Altarpiece depicts a saint being torn apart for his faith. The flesh is being ripped from his body. And he's looking up at God, not in anger, but in gratitude. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nature made me a freak. Man made me a weapon. And God made it last too long. – Wolverine

I'm the only one who can handle the pain. – Wolverine

It's not the pain that's the problem. It's the waiting. – Wolverine

I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned. – Phil Connors

I don’t think God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be strong. – John Dutton

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Socrates

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller

To perceive is to suffer. – Aristotle

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. – Dalai Lama

People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. – Greta Thunberg

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. – Richard Dawkins

To be an artist is to be wounded. – Ingmar Bergman

I thought I was the only one who was suffering. – Shoya Ishida