Quotes About Suffering

The reason the Lord holds you to the fire is not to punish you, but to reveal the splendor of Christ through your life. It's not so that you might earn God's favor; it's because you've already received God's favor.

Death by starvation is slow.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

The most important upshot of this,' Polybius concludes, 'is that the younger generation is inspired to endure all suffering for the common good, in the hope of winning the glory that belongs to the brave.

Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else. And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer. Then they die.

Loneliness. It's a thing, you know, not a feeling. A big, ugly thing that moves in and takes over until you forget how to live without it, but you can't live with it either.

A barely tolerable world became unbearable.

Marriage was nothing but a primitive form of torture;

Too nice was a thief, robbing bits of your life out from underneath you, one experience at a time.

E ela se perguntou como era possível fazer da miséria uma religião.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend the time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Does anybody wonder so many women die? Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

If love is the best feeling in the world, then why does my heart hurt so much?

Love is a grave mental disease.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

I wish I had never known you. I was happy before even when you were not there yet. Unlike now, you make me suffer, I know that you didn't mean to have known me. Me too, I wasn't planning on loving you.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Thou art to me a delicious torment.