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Quotes About Suffering

He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life.
~ Philip Pullman
There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again.
~ Philip Pullman
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know.
~ Philip Pullman
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
~ Philip Pullman
Love makes us suffer. But this task of ours is greater than revenge. Remember that.
~ Philip Pullman
But he was a human being, or part of one, and he felt just as Lyra did: unhappy, and guilty, and wretchedly lonely.
~ Philip Pullman
Men we have never met took our son. They took him without our express permission. They tortured him then they … killed him. And there is no understanding it. There is no meaning. No coming to terms with it. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever. We will wake up every day for the rest of our lives and we will breathe razor blades and we will swim through bleach. And there is no escape from this. There is no comfort. There is just … blades and bleach. Until we die.
~ Philip Ridley
Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character analysis, all the contempt they have been harbouring for you for all these years?
~ Philip Roth
There is something fascinating about what moral suffering can do to someone who is in no obvious way a weak or feeble person. It's more insidious even than what physical illness can do, because there is no morphine drip or spinal block or radical surgery to alleviate it. Once you're in its grip, it's as though it will have to kill you for you to be free of it. Its raw realism is like nothing else.
~ Philip Roth
It's amazing how much punishment we can take.
~ Philip Roth
There is no life without patience.
~ Philip Roth
Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta.
~ Philip Roth
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
~ Philip Roth
Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible. But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy--that is every man's tragedy.
~ Philip Roth
Victor Frankl? Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning?
~ David Foster Wallace
it was his idea to call having a body Corporeal Punishment)
~ David Foster Wallace
Los Vedas nos dicen que esta desconexión de la mente y el corazón es la causa de todo el sufrimiento que vemos hoy en el mundo. Los científicos creen que el estrés provoca el ochenta por ciento de las enfermedades que padecemos, pero lo que hace que el estrés sea tan predominante es la falta de silencio. Tal como señala el Dr. Frawley, este es el motivo por el que resulta tan importante que incluyamos la práctica de la meditación en nuestra vida.
~ David Frawley
despersonalizar nuestros problemas para concentrarnos en la totalidad de la condición humana y el dolor de los demás. Dejando de lado nuestros problemas personales, debemos asumir los problemas de la humanidad, abrirnos a los sufrimientos de los demás y hacerlos nuestros. Para ayudarnos a crecer espiritualmente debemos aprender que la vida crea el sufrimiento. Esta es una etapa de servicio y caridad.10
~ David Frawley
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
~ David Gemmell
Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.
~ David Gemmell
War. Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.
~ David Gemmell
Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could not believe what he was watching. At least fifty helpless men were dying in agony. One man managed to free himself and leap into the sea. Amazingly, when he surfaced the flames were still consuming him. All along the beach there was silence as the stunned crowd watched the magical fires burning the galley and it's crew.
~ David Gemmell
I have found in my life, Rek, that there are a few actions which are unforgivable. And certainly there are no words said that carry such a penalty. It is a man's lot, I fear, to strike out when he has suffered hurt.
~ David Gemmell
Fra tutti i dolori che ho conosciuto non ce n'è mai stato nessuno grande come la sofferenza di sapere che esso sarà senza di me, e tuttavia ti ho amata e non cambierei un solo giorno. E se per qualche miracolo mi fosse concesso di tornare al passato e di corteggiarti di nuovo, lo rifarei anche avendo la certezza che tutto finirà ancora nello stesso modo.
~ David Gemmell