Quotes by Suffering If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly. Victor Hugo ifssuffering Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. Victor Hugo flowerwisdomsuffering Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it. Vincent de Paul wisdomsufferingdoe Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation. Vincent de Paul sorrowcompassionsuffering . . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor. Vincent de Paul charitykingdomssuffering To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life Vincent Van Gogh this-lifelessonssuffering Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting. Vincent de Paul actingsufferingfaith Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience. Vincent de Paul wisdomsufferingpractice The more you love, the more you suffer. Vincent Van Gogh love-you-morehow-to-lovesuffering [M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer! Vincent de Paul servant-of-godsufferingschool I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me! Vincent de Paul contentmentsufferingwish I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit. Vincent Van Gogh alivekindsuffering Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. Virgil sufferingmayjoy l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create. Vincent Van Gogh atheismartistsuffering Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men Virgil painsufferingmen I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language. Virginia Heffernan sorrowgriefsuffering Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction Virgil afflictionsufferingsympathy Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world. Vivienne Westwood sufferingshould-haveworld How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else. Vivienne Westwood sufferingseapeople What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. Vivienne Westwood sufferingkidschildren«201202203204205206207208209210211»
