Quotes About Suffering

Cuando los arcángeles juegan, los mortales sufren.

Agony and ecstasy, pleasure and pain.

And the archangels were not who they should be, and bodies rotted in the streets and blood rained from the skies as empires burned.

I don't have empathy, Sahara. I can't feel for those who are going to die. It would be akin to asking a falcon to take flight when his wings had long been hacked off.

I was not…formed correctly. Part of me is damaged and may one day shatter. When it does, I ask that you execute me cleanly rather than allow me to erode from the inside out

I don't want to be in a world where he doesn't get to survive. How is that in any way fair?

Something bad happened to me, didn't it?" Worse than the captivity, worse than the torture after she created the labyrinth. Kaleb knew he'd made a major tactical error. But he'd promised Sahara he'd never lie to her, so he said, "Yes," and waited. "I'm not ready yet." Her hand fell to his shoulder. "Not strong enough yet. But I will be soon.

Pain is the best indicator of whether something is an illusion or reality." -Kaleb

No one goes through life with a whole heart.

What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

Il vaut mieux être optimiste, de toute façon, car les pessimistes souffrent à deux reprises : d'abord à l'avance, puis quand le malheur arrive.

All pain is translatable, from the toothache of a dental assistant in Idaho to natural catastrophes like the floods in China.

You are naught but skin and bone and suffering.

if God used the "way of suffering" in Jesus' life to accomplish His will, then it's reasonable to expect that He will use our trials and our suffering to accomplish His will in our lives also.

It is a tragedy to see the medical profession move from suicide prevention to suicide facilitation. The right-to-die movement presents euthanasia as compassionate. But disparaging human life as expendable is not compassionate. The term 'compassion' literally means 'to suffer with' (com=with, passion=suffer). True compassion means being willing to suffer on behalf of others, loving them enough to bear the burden of caring for them.

It seems that Peter is saying the goal of apologetics is not just to present better arguments but to exhibit a better character, especially when suffering hostility and opposition.

In Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan, the bloody violence sweeping India after partition has not yet touched Mano Majra, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a trainful of dead Sikhs set off a tragic chain of events.

One reason issues like euthanasia are so salient today is that people no longer have positive ways to respond to suffering.

Christianity also teaches that, amazingly, God himself entered into the human condition and experienced suffering and death by execution on a Roman cross. In doing so, God inverted death into a means of achieving new life. "By his wounds we are healed" (Isa. 53:5).

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival. —Sir Winston Churchill

More dangerous than anger and hate is indifference. To be indifferent to suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. It is not a beginning, it is an end, and it is always the friend to the enemy. —Elie Wiesel