Quotes About Suffering

Poverty means death," Gustavo writes. This death, however, is not only physical but mental and cultural as well. It refers to the destruction of individual persons, peoples, cultures, and traditions.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Secret Self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole.

There comes a point when life is not worth enduring if one steps back.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.

The war between Jews and Romans was fought with great ferocity by both sides, and it led to suffering, death, and destruction on a scale for which we have no other comparable testimony in the history of the early Roman empire, even if Josephus, its historian, exaggerated casualty figures on both sides. Yet some scholars have downplayed the scale and significance of the war of Jews against Romans. This book will prove that the war was not small, short,

you were told the accumulated wisdom of generations who had suffered to acquire their knowledge, and you simply did not believe it. Those difficult rules might be right for other people, but as for yourself, you were going to get what you wanted. You were the center of your own universe and intended to have supremacy in it

Finding out what you already know. Repeatingly. That's not sane, is it? And while he might have said that this was how he was, for me it continued to be frightening, panic-making, to hear the low, pleading sounds I'd started making, whenever he was sharp with me. This wasn't how I spoke. (Except it was.) This wasn't me, this crawling, cautious creature. (Except it was.)... none of this was personal.

Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.

We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray.

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful

A beteg ember mindig emberebb.

A veces la culpa quiere que aquel a quien se castiga decida su propia condena. Y no es infrecuente que el amor herido quiera ser herido de más.

Se es mexicano, entre otras cosas, porque se comparte la veneración de esas violencias y esos martirologios.

Before he loved you, I suffered alongside him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I was his son before he even met you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Don't we need to be taken care of, too? "With all that money, the chicken coop [of relatives] gets all mixed up and the family gets warped," Jessica says.

You can go on losing after loss.

I am being killed by what keeps me from dying. And next the sea became very small no bigger than a bathtub. Rolling in pain crashed over and over again onto the edges of the world. Then a divinity fished her out.

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

Voice-cry. Agony--the spoken "word" exploded, blown to bits by suffering and anger, demolishing discourse: this is how she has always been heard before, ever since the time when masculine society began to push her offstage, expulsing her, plundering her. Ever since Medea, ever since Electra.

do everything, I thought, on the contrary, whatever you can to resist the ingenious temptations of compromises, cling to the suffering, stir up the dread, for the monsters are also the benevolent guardians of the survivor's presence within me

Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihen, die Götter, schenken heiliges Leid uns auch.

Atrocity has a horrible facility for begetting atrocity.