Quotes About Suffering

Binecuvantati cei ce sunt binecuvantati numai de boli de boli clasificabile. Binecuvantati saracii, bolnavii, cei tradati in iubire, caci cei din jur stiu macar ce-i cu ei si le vor asculta cu simpatie vaicarelilor. Dar intelege oare suferinta exilului cel ce nu a indurat-o?

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.

When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.

Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

We are running from our pain to our pain.

The rim of a tightening lung.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

We, the Palestinians, became the victims of the victims

Alors, ma passion n'a pas d'échos en lui. Pour lui mon tragique amour n'est rien qu'un blasphème anormal. Oh, mon Carlo, mon Carlo, et toi, tu étais mon sang, ma chair! Comme je souffre! Grand dieu, comme je souffre!

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But

It was physically impossible for the verger to be suffering from time-lag, unless it was somehow contagious.

bring to them and the world the peace and joy of Christ through the healing and prevention of emotional suffering.

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

Where men can't live gods fare no better.