Quotes About Suffering

In my opinion, an interesting switch had taken place. Boetie had been a passive victim of emotional, sexual and physical abuse as a child. As an adult he identified with the aggressor and did to others what had been done to him. When he was imprisoned he could no longer vent his anger and suffering and reverted back to the role of the passive victim, allocating the role of active persecutors to his victims.

Përditë shoh qartë e ma qartë dhe vuej thellë e ma thellë.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

In prison there's no bad, everything's worse. Worse bellyache, worse misery, worse sadness--the worst of the worst. Jailers and judges seem like people without reason, deranged. Compliance with rules and regulations which have nothing to do with reality turns them into madmen, at least they seem such to those not under the strange influence of the law.

901Le dolía su país como si le hubiera podrido la sangre. Le dolía afuera y en la médula, en la raíz del pelo, bajo las uñas, entre los dientes.

Le dolía su país como si le hubiera podrido la sangre. Le dolía afuera y en la médula, en la raíz del pelo, bajo las uñas, entre los dientes.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Consciousness is a disease.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Cuando la vio gozar, sufriendo al darle su primer hijo, es cuando comprendió cómo es el amor más fuerte que la vida y que la muerte, y domina la discordia de estas; cómo el amor hace morirse a la vida y vivir la muerte; cómo él vivía ahora la muerte de su Rosa y se moría en su propia vida.

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una

El segundo nacimiento, el verdadero, es nacer por el dolor a la conciencia de la muerte incesante, de que estamos siempre muriendo.

Sufro yo a tu costa / Dios no existente, pues si Tú existieras / existiría yo también de veras».

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.

Él no tenía autonomía ni capacidad de decisión. El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ya no le hace falta para nada; cuando ni un solo día puede dejar de guiar un carro o picar piedra si no quiere quedarse sin comer. ¿Para qué le valía, entonces, la capacidad de decisión de un hombre, si puede saberse? La vida era el peor tirano conocido. Cuando la vida le agarra a uno, sobra todo poder de decisión.

Toda a dor prolongada insulta o seu esquecimento.

Vitoria il judeca pe Lipan. Avea ea sa-i spuie multe, si le spunea, fara sa miste buzele si limba. I le spunea din launtru, cu banuieli si suferinti vechi.

But if one assumes that people have a choice in how they respond to external events, in what meaning they attribute to suffering, then one can interpret the constructive response as normal and the neurotic one as a failure to rise to the challenge, as a breakdown in the ability to flow.