Quotes About Suffering

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The history of women has been the history of a destructive kind of suffering, and I do not suggest moving further into that experience. My point is that walking away from pain altogether is equally as destructive. The debilitating suffering come when we do not allow ourselves to feel and work through our pain. Facing pain honestly and surviving gives us strength.

The suffering of his body is as naught to the joy of being free from the pain of being seen.

So the thing is, you all share the same kind of pain, exactly the same, but you're too busy experiencing total agony to feel anything other than completely alone. That's what it's like!' I

I must not look the hawk in the eye. I must not punish the hawk, though it bates, and beats, and my hand is raw with pecks and my face stings from the blows of its bating wings. Hawks cannot be punished. They would die rather than submit. Patience is my only weapon. Patience. Derived from patior. Meaning to suffer. It is an ordeal. I shall triumph.

The borders between life and death are somewhere in the taking of their meal. I couldn't let that suffering happen. Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human. Kneeling next to the hawk and her prey, I felt a responsibility so huge that it battered inside my own chest, ballooning out into a space the size of a cathedral.

White called Prisonface to life in order that he should suffer, be punished, mocked, reduced to rags and die.

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

You come without papers because you have been unable to prove that you are useful to anyone, and when you arrive they put you in prison and if you are unable to prove that you have suffered they send you back.

How can you know me and want to die?

Sometimes you laughed, and then my glove puppet would weep piteously. When you took the glove puppet he alternated between flirtatious and suicidal, hell-bent on flinging himself from great heights and out of the windows. I noticed that you didn't make a voice or a history for the puppet, but you became its voice and history. I'd have liked to admire that but felt I was watching a distressing form of theft, since the puppet could do nothing but suffer being forced open like an oyster.

These are thoughts that come to you while you spend however long you spend holding ice-packs to your eye, or tilting your head back against the wall to try to do something about the way your nose is bleeding, letting your mind work on the question: What reasons might somebody have for leaving her kid in the care of a man like Frank Novak?

What would I do in such a place? Die, I expect.

Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I'm going to be waking up till the moment I die.

Helen Rappaport

together, and in Russia. Ekaterinburg was their Calvary.

Be glad today how very easily is hell undone. You need but tell yourself: 8 I am the holy Son of God Himself. I cannot suffer, cannot be in pain; I cannot lose, nor can I fail to do All that salvation asks. 9 And in that thought is everything you look on wholly changed. 10

Deep in our unconscious, we believe that we have hopelessly defiled our original innocence, that we "have made a devil of God's Son."8 This belief is the hidden cause of all our suffering, for it is a constant affirmation that we deserve to suffer, as punishment for what we've done.

Una vez que una ilusión se reconoce como tal, desaparece. 2 Niégate a aceptar el sufrimiento, y eliminarás el pensamiento de sufrimiento.

6 Ninguna forma de sacrificio o de sufrimiento puede prevalecer por mucho tiempo ante la faz de uno que se ha perdonado y bendecido a sí mismo.