Silius Italicus Quotes

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Fear God and work hard.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

One man’s exile is but a drop in the sea of human misery

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.

A scene of misery and gloomy despair of a community of people who have been plunged abruptly from prosperity to a complete want of the most essential things of life.

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

Misery is the River of the World

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.