Unmerited Suffering Quotes

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Life isn't fair, but God is.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

I am responsible for my brother's death. I feel the guilt of having survived. People say, 'You should be happy. You survived.' But I have this feeling that it is not right that I am alive.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.