Quotes About Suffering

Nenhuma tribo selvagem, nenhum invasor foi alguma vez responsável pelas crueldades estúpidas e deliberadas dos alemães, que arrasaram a Ucrânia como crianças cruéis e frenéticas.

Century after century, we have prosecuted our insane conflicts from atop their backs, resting on their sturdy necks when we grew weary, eating their flesh when we were starving, disemboweling them and crawling inside their bodies when we were freezing. --Blood Horses

We were in a cell together in a Colonial prison, along with hundreds of other people from 2010. It wasn't very comfortable. No beds. No chairs. You just had to sit on the floor in your own filth. And my filth, I noticed, was stupendous.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably--he grows confident of his ability to negotiate long words--misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

Our inner self learns from the things that our outer self suffers, and though it appears devastating to the outer self, the inner self lives on forever with the wisdom gained.

The basic fact is that all sentient beings, particularly human beings, want happiness and do not want pain and suffering.

The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.

Can you be happy when you are unhappy?

Mindful sitting meditation is not an attempt to escape from problems or difficulties into some cut-off "meditative" state of absorption or denial. On the contrary, it is a willingness to go nose to nose with pain, confusion, and loss, if that is what is dominating the present moment, and to stay with the observing over a sustained period of time, beyond thinking.

So when we make contact with the domain of being in the meditation practice, we are already, in a profound sense, beyond the scarring, beyond the isolation and fragmentation and suffering we may be experiencing.

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

El dolor emocional, el dolor de nuestro corazón y el dolor de nuestra mente son mucho más dañinos y habituales que el dolor físico.

It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference between endless imprisonment in pain and suffering and freedom from suffering

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.

Your trials last as long as your disobedience.

Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.