Quotes About Suffering

Oh,lift me as a wave,a leaf,a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life!I bleed!

Perhaps the only comfort which remains Is the unheeded clanking of my chains, The which I make, and call it melody.

Hell is a city much like London.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Alas! this is not what I thought life was. I knew that there were crimes and evil men, Misery and hate; nor did I hope to pass Untouched by suffering, through the rugged glen. In mine own heart I saw as in a glass The hearts of others ... And when I went among my kind, with triple brass Of calm endurance my weak breast I armed, To bear scorn, fear, and hate, a woeful mass!

Joy, once lost, is pain

I Fall upon the thorns of life....

At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

That which redeems consumes.

To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

We lock up the mentally ill because they terrify us. We are afraid of them and even more frightened of what they symbolize. We want to believe they did something that

Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

Zinzendorf. . .asked God to remind him of Christ's suffering whenever he might be inclined to wander away from his first love.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

Feeling is the antithesis of pain…the more pain one feels, the less pain one suffers" – Arthur Janov

Here then are some useful messages for nurturing the growth of your self-compassion and self-esteem. I recommend that you imagine speaking them to your inner child, especially when you are suffering with a flashback. Reparenting Affirmations I am so glad you were born. You are a good person.

They cauterized my feelings To stop the bleeding of my tears And now I drown alone inside A pool that's hemorrhaged for years.

Left-brain dissociation is obsessiveness. Commonly, this ranges in severity from dwelling on a singular worry… to repetitively cycling through a list of worries… to panicky drasticizing and catastrophizing. This type of dissociation from internal pain strands the survivor in unhelpful ruminations about issues that are unrelated or minimally related to the true nature of her suffering.

The only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid unavoidable pain.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

Recently, a young Iraq veteran took issue with calling his combat anguish PTSD and, instead, poignantly referred to his pain and suffering as PTSI—the "I" designating "injury." What he wisely discerned is that trauma is an injury, not a disorder like diabetes, which can be managed but not healed. In contrast, posttraumatic stress injury is an emotional wound, amenable to healing attention and transformation.