Suffering Capacity Quotes

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.