People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind..

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it..

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering..

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions..

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity..

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories….

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue..

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability..

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity..

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity..

The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone..

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering..

[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God..

It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth yo….

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go o….

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little….

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything..

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread hap….

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness o….

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in ….

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.