Quotes About Suffering

I would go with you through the fires of death. Yet am happiest alone.

Sabe que una injusticia descarada duele más que un castigo merecido.

La locura es aquella enfermedad que sólo nos amenaza cuando ya sus uñas se han alojado en las entrañas, de modo que pelear contra ella es también despedazarnos el vientre, oprimirnos los pulmones, perder el miedo a la muerte como se pierden la inocencia y el amor.

El infierno es una fiesta tan maravillosa, que solo después del primer mes te das cuenta que aquello es un castigo.

For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong." "Well spoken, Gobryas!" exclaimed

The suffering of the leader is always lightened by his glory. As much as possible, you must let others share in your glory, so that they never lose heart." I

Socrates replied: One thing to me is certain, Antiphon; you have conceived so vivid an idea of my life of misery that for yourself you would choose death sooner than live as I do.

The Four Noble Truths The Dharma teaches the Buddhists the ways to progress or reach nirvana.  In this light, the Dharma teaches that the journey to nirvana should involve following the Four Noble Truths referred to as Pativedhanana or the "wisdom of realization."  According to the Buddha, the four truths center around the following concepts: 1) universality of suffering; 2) origin of suffering; 3) overcoming of suffering; and 4) the suppression of suffering. The

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Khi ta Ä'ã ch?u nhi?u Ä'au Ä'á»›n ? ??i, má»—i má»™t ná»—i Ä'au má»›i s? v?a n?ng trÄ©u mà cÅ©ng l?i ch?ng là gì.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God.

Animals are also poisoned. And there are indecencies