Quotes About Suffering

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 130 From a letter to Sir Stanley Unwin

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 131 To Milton Waldman

Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.

Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish smell of flesh that is torn open and over which blood is pouring. It was his flesh, their flesh, lying about still alive, but dying, dying so slowly, dying so fast…

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. Douglas MacArthur

Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.

Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.

am forever reminded of the eight unavoidable sufferings: birth, old age, pain, one's own death, the death of a loved one, evil people, frustrated desire and lust.

Freedom from suffering is precisely not the result to be expected from remaining on the vine: on the contrary, fruitful branches are "pruned" just as fruitless ones are cast off (John 15:2, 6). Suffering is a part of every life, but for the Christian it is a "fruitful" part of life, bearing a harvest of righteousness (cf. Heb. 12:11). As

Worldliness proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man's fallen nature; it judges the importance of things by the present and material results; it weighs success by numbers; it covets human esteem and wants no unpopularity; it knows no truth for which it is worth suffering; it declines to be a 'fool for Christ's sake.

No te intereses por nadie, Rafael; es mejor ser cruel con los demás que no tener que sufrir después calvario, pasión y muerte.

MARÍA. ¡Ay, quién pudiera darte la tranquilidad que tienen los lagos dormidos...! JESÚS. ¡Madre, si yo fuera lago lloverían constantemente piedras sobre mi superficie! ¡Estoy hecho para el dolor!

At any time, people suffering severe psychological distress that is not of organic or other biological origin "choose" from socially available and clinically reinforced modes.

În timp ce foarte mulÈ›i se temeau pentru soarta celor apropiaÈ›i, suferinÈ›a celorlalÈ›i nu mai conta aÈ™a de mult.

Horror is what happens when evil overtakes the heart

Where Grissom Bunt, Category Twelve PainCriminal, whoever he was, had gone. From which Grissom Bunt would never emerge again. Not as Grissom Bunt. She pictured a shaved naked skull crisscrossed with blue-ridged suture lines, heard a voice saying, "I wouldn't hurt a fly, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

Desperation and nothing else sent her tumbling under the wheels of a tram. Sharp guillotine wheels ground past her head, then her fingers closed on a metal grille. She tore away the inspection cover. Metal steps spiked into the shaft of the personhole led down into anonymous oblivion. Head and shoulders went in. No more. "Too big, too big," shrieked the utterly inappropriate voice of reason.

You know, Benji, I am definitely experiencing severe distress.

Hunger. The first word he had spoken as BeeJee &ersenn knelt beside him on the streaming cobbles. He had rubbed his hands across his belly and said, "Why do I feel this?" Such an incredible question.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.