Quotes About Suffering

Many women have become teachers who never should have, because it's more appealing than working in the mills or in the fields. Yet, their students suffer." "Because

animals with more mental flexibility typically possess more complex sensory and nervous systems, suggesting that they are the most likely to have the neural hardware that underlies suffering.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Life is often a game of two halves: in the first half it lulls you, makes you think you're in control; in the second, when it sees you're relaxed and helpless, it comes around again and grinds you to a pulp.

Mais elle a le bide troué, et son nuage s'engouffre dedans.

No habla con nadie. Solo se arrastra bajo los golpes que le propina su novio, por la noche y a escondidas. Para todos los demás, es majestuosa.

Elle se répète: "change de tactique, ma fille, cesse de souffrir, t'es pas obligée de ramasser autant." Mais rien n'y fait. Il y a des gens qui se torturent mieux que d'autres. Dans cette catégorie, au moins, elle se sent championne absolue.

The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.

Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills

the death of Jesus took place in a space where God was thought to be absent. It was a space in which God's revelation would not occur, a place that could not witness to divine glory; it was an anti-epiphanic space, for it was the place of the skull.

a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...

Los motivos de crítica o de rechazo de la fe se presentan siempre, obviamente, como algo objetivo, cuando -para quien conoce los intríngulis del corazón humano- son demasiado a menudo el grito ansioso de la subjetividad de personas que sufren.

Buddha's father had been in the world.

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come.

Men should discover their past. I admit to this. It has been my profession. Only so can we learn our limitations and come in time to suffer life with compassion. Nevertheless, I now believe there are occasions when … to tamper with the past, even one's own, is to bring [on] that slipping, sliding horror which revolves around all that is done, unalterable, and yet which abides unseen in the living mind … [and makes] us lonely beyond belief.

As yet, there was nothing for it but to endure. We became fond of responding to irony in novels of love as one would to a finger pressed against the flesh near an open sore.

When a liberal is abused, he says, 'Thank God they didn't beat me.' When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn't kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

Did you suffer? Terribly. In fact, it tore my life apart. Up until that time I didn't really understand the transformation that was going on in Russia. When I had come home from the GDR, it was clear to me that something was happening. But during the days of the coup, all the ideals, all the goals that I had had when I went to work for the

I saw houses burned by the Mujahadeen, as well as disfigured bodies of prisoners they'd taken. But I saw other things too: villages destroyed by our shelling and bodies of women, killed by mistake. When you shoot at every rustling in the bushes, there's no time to think about who's there. But for an Afghan, it didn't matter if his wife had been killed intentionally or accidentally. He went into the mountains to see revenge.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Behold the man.

Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)

We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best—helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.