Quotes about Suffering
Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why does misery constantly haunt the Negro?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hard truth is that neither Negro nor white has yet done enough to expect the dawn of a new day. While much has been done, it has been accomplished by too few and on a scale too limited for the breadth of the goal. Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.
— Arthur Schopenhauer