Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Thomas Sydenham

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
Donald Cargill

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Marie Antoinette

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
Sarah Fielding

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
Kenzaburo Oe

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
Harold Bloom

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
Kathe Kollwitz

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Lisa Bonet

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
Robert Capa

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
Edward Everett

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
Ernst Toller

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Virgil

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Thomas Becket

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
Lewis Tappan