Quotes About Suffering

A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

Faith is the ability to endure.

As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.

Alcoholics don't have relationships-they take hostages.

Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen

There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectations, all faith, all desire.

Some people are born to suffer. It never stops for them, not for a second .... they are made for it - sustained by it.

Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with

Her pale fat throat seems to have a fist inside it, moving up and down.

I've seen men go to their deaths laughing, I've seen others wail and cry. They all died in the end, but those who were laughing seemed to have an easier time of it.

the worst thing about prison was the dementors

as the Rutgers University legal scholar Gary Francione has done in his 2008 book Animals as Persons, where he outlined in logical detail why sentient nonhumans should legally be regarded as persons: "They are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.

What about the flip side of the economic ledger – the poor? Even Jesus gave up hope for them and offered only early entrance to heaven.

When you have to murder people by the tens of millions to achieve your utopian dream, you have succeeded only in producing a dystopian nightmare.

Volpe expands their worldview and shows them that struggle and suffering are universal, but so are hope and resilience.

Those were the words of a British army officer, and member of Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, before walking out from his tent and into a blizzard. Knowing his gangrene and frostbite were hurting their chances of survival, he chose certain death, to relieve his friends of the burden of caring for him.

When a man endures suffering he endures something greater than himself

When you know how to relieve torment and don't, then you become the tormentor.

Y así como nunca eliminaremos el crimen ni la guerra, tampoco nos liberaremos jamás de la enfermedad.

No one ever tells you that when your heart breaks, you can feel it. But you can. It feels like something has crumbled inside you and the pieces are falling into your stomach. It hurts more than any punch ever could. You stop breathing, and for a while you can't remember how. When you finally do, it feels like your throat has closed up, like you're trying to suck air through a straw.

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

Leave me as I am; for the one who enables me to endure the fire will also enable me to remain on the pyre without moving, even without the sense of security that you get from the nails." Polycarp's Prayer

Thus, in The Lion they become monarchs under sovereign Jove; in Prince Caspian they harden under strong Mars; in The Dawn Treader they drink light under searching Sol; in The Silver Chair they learn obedience under subordinate Luna; in The Horse and His Boy they come to love poetry under eloquent Mercury; in the Magicians Nephew they gain life-giving fruit under fertile Venus; and in the Last Battle they suffer and die under chilling Saturn.

it would be accurate to say that despair is the most precious sickness known to man, and so there is no reason to despair…if you are suffering from 'existential despair', since this is potentially your 'ticket' to freedom.