Quotes about Suffering

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.

What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.