Quotes About Suffering

At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

Na Auschwitz is het overbodig over de menselijke natuur te oordelen.

Mais n'exagérons rien, puisque c'est là le problème: je suis ici et je sais bien que j'accepte tous les arguments, au prix de pouvoir vivre

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

No" — I could never be another person's father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened to me; my childhood. (Auschwitz).

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it , I suffer from it die of it.

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

Let me see no more of my harsh fate: this useless struggle.

I am inclined to think that in one sense we have to feel more than others—yes, doubly more—since the very attempt to restrain natural promptings entails suffering. Imagine boys—and girls too—brought up not to resort to the shedding of a tear or the uttering of a groan for the relief of their feelings, and there is a physiological problem whether such effort steels their nerves or makes them more sensitive.

The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment

Malina: calm the commotion. Disturb the calm. Me: (doltente, Molto Mosso) But when will the time finally come to accomplish this, when can I do and do nothing more, all at once? When will the time come when I can find time for that? When will it be time to stop all false differentiation and categorization, to stop false fear and suffering, senseless empathy, this constant, senseless pondering and musing! (Una corda) I want to think my way out slowly. (Tutte le corde) Is that the way it is?

Denn heute ist ein Wort, das nur Selbstmörder verwenden dürften [...]

Oder leiden die anderen nicht so sehr darunter, weil sie kein andres System haben, die Welt zu sehen?

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. ~ Ernest Hemingway

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ?Rumi

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs. – Emily Dickinson

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. – Ovid

When Jesus was nailed to the cross and hung there in torment - he cried out "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God's silence.

Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

A?k, bütün vebalar?n en karas?d?r; ki?i ondan ölebilseydi, a?kta biraz zevk olurdu.

Edvard: Du har levat i en konstgjord värld, insnärd i konstgjorda känslor. Jag måste lära dig och dina barn att leva i verkligheten. Det är inte mitt fel att verkeligheten är ett helvete