Quotes About Suffering

We are creatures of the cruelties we witness.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Having been a longtime Long Island resident, it's the secret that everyone knows about, that Bethpage and the site are a contaminated mess that is causing cancer and causing everyone suffering and loss of loved ones,"

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.

God gave us orifices, God gave us wounds.

Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He

fear led to hate and hate to suffering.

Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn's feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.

This "they win, the people lose" formula has become the one that has now set the world on its calamitous course.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the trying of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. Jas 1:2–4

Whoever doesn't seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — St. John of the Cross

I argued that such an approach stood logic on its head. All disasters, all loss, all suffering, demonstrate that there cannot possibly be a God, for why would a deity who is omnipotent create a universe so prone to disaster and accident? Religious faith, I argued, was invented in order to pacify the grieving multitudes and ensure they did not ask the really difficult questions, which if answered, would tend to lead to progress.

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

La guerre, c'est le massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent et ne se massacrent pas.

La guerra es una masacre entre gente que no se conoce, para provecho de gente que sí se conoce pero que no se masacra.

El dolor es siempre pregunta, y el placer, respuesta

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.

God didn't cause this cancer. I know He doesn't make bad things happen to teach us a lesson. But He certainly allowed it.

It's no life, Paula. It's a living nightmare.

She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.

Ironic," Ricardo said. "That you must become a monster to keep from going mad.

The worst description I ever read was by a best-selling novelist who sized up World War II this way: "The war was just terrible.

Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him— but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.