Quotes About Suffering

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.

Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them. This is also part of the philosophy of Edgler Foreman Vess.

A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt.

Cuando has sufrido mucho en la vida, cada dolor adicional es tan tolerable como insignificante.

These people walk by a window deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, Business as usual But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.

We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer...then surely we are also permitted doubt.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. And that is what he is doing: becoming someone.

Când ai suferit foarte mult în via??, fiecare durere în plus poate fi atât neînsemnat?, cât ÅŸi de nesuportat

Por qué iba a someterse Dios a algo así? ¿Por qué no dejar la muerte para los mortales? ¿Por qué tuvo que ensuciar lo que era bello, estropear la perfección? -Por amor...

No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

Si tu veux pleurer, pleure; si tu veux espérer, prie, mais, de grâce, ne cherche pas de coupable là où tu ne trouves pas de sens à ta douleur.

Michel Cukiermann, my son-in-law: heir of suffering, pillar of the community, contemporary stand-in for the sons of Abraham, disciple of Moses.

This is no world for gentle people

Una poetisa muerta de cáncer en su juventud había dicho en uno de sus poemas que para ella, en las noches de insomnio, la noche ofrece sapos, perros negros y cadáveres de ahogados

Era el cuerpo de mujer lo que arrastraba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?

A person should be grateful to the Holy One, blessed be He, when afflictions come upon him. Why? Because these afflictions draw a man to God. (Tanhuma, Ki Taitzai, 2) A person should rejoice when afflictions come upon him more so than when good comes to him. Because when good comes to you, sins are not forgiven; but when you receive afflictions [with love], your sins are forgiven. (Sifre, V'etchanan, 32)

this is real. This life. We're really here - this is really happening. Suffering is real. When you hurt people, it's real. When you fuck one of our best friends, that's a real thing and it hurts me.

But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain. One