Quotes About Suffering

Our suffering is due to Spiritual Amnesia

The Book of Revelation refers to the end times. Do not fear the end. Our souls cannot be extinguished. They are eternal. The end times refer to the end of spiritual unconsciousness. That's what the awakening is all about. The end of a nightmare called hell. The end of separation from God. We suffer from spiritual amnesia and spiritual amnesia is the cause of our suffering.

We create suffering by denying our own actual experience and embracing relative truth

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet

Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

Freedom in its existential struggle, greater than the tragedy of fear.

Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

War kills everybody, including the ones who live.

Wir sind alle ein bisschen gestorben in diesem Krieg, glaube ich. Wie meine Mutter immer gesagt hat. Krieg tötet alle, auch die, die ihn überleben.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Agnes Newton Keith Three Came Home

The next star shell revealed a horrific panorama: The snow was smeared with blood. Twisted corpses and shorn body parts had been flung in all directions.

The privilege isn't given to everyone.… You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. —Henry James, 1881

Not by such calculation is human endeavor measured. Sacrifice is nobler than ease, unselfish life is consummated in lonely death, and the world is richer by the gift of suffering.

Is it said that too high a price in the lives of men was paid for this knowledge? Not by such calculation is human endeavour measured. Sacrifice is nobler than ease, unselfish life is consummated in lonely death, and the world is richer by the gift of suffering.

Some misguided Israelis believe that if they make life unbearable for us, we'll leave. No Palestinian is ready to go into exile or commit collective suicide. We are here to stay.

I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

S?uchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym by? chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysi?ce ludzi mog?o dobrowolnie przyj?? i z chlebem jecha? do Treblinki. Nikt przecie? tego dotychczas nie zrozumia?.

I have learned what all who live in a land of slaver[y] must learn sooner or later; that is to process approbation where you cannot feel it; to be hard when most inclined to melt; and to say that all is right, and good; and true when you know that nothing could be more wrong and unjust.["]

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.