Quotes About Suffering

he objected to work, but that the world being the harsh place it is he had to suffer his lot like the rest of humanity.

Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God . . . there is something so dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power." —Cardinal John Henry Newman

Romantic love is painful.

He had decided, almost hysterically it seems from the tone of this desperate letter to Washington, to turn his back on the people who had so rejected and wounded him, and make his peace with the British.

Kortom: net als altijd in het leven, een soort specifiek gemiddelde van ellende.

Om integer te zijn en alleen te kunnen wezen, moet je iets ontdekken dat het de moeite waard maakt ervoor te lijden.

In a fallen world, the only currency of love is suffering. Indeed, the only way to tell how much one person loves another is by what that person is willing to endure for the other.

The promise of the Christian faith is that this life presages a glorious new life that will make present pains seem negligible:

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.

bo," I begged. "Please, breathe." After a few minutes, the contraction subsided, and Soo-bo sank into the bed. Her face was ashen, and sweat matted her

my ianfu sisters who had died in the comfort station.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind. - Epicurus

Evolutionary processes made us susceptible to suffering but also gave us—accidentally—a tool by which we can prevent much of this suffering. The tool, once again, is our reasoning ability. Because we can reason, we can not only understand our evolutionary predicament but take conscious steps to escape it, to the extent possible.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.

In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor;And Mercy no more could be,If all were as happy as we.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wish'd for Hell for ease from Heaven.

reason, say the elders, was so that you and future generations would not have to carry the pain.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.