As for the bitter herbs. . . . To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point - bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering.
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.
If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.
Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.
I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler , but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin 's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.