Thomas a Kempis Quotes

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

People don't know what pain is until they suffer.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

I've suffered through the worst possible conditions.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.