Quotes About Suffering

There is nothing more you can do to hurt me now. You have already broken the man you knew, crucified every part of my humanity and left me with nothing except the ruins of what I once was. Why do you look away? Have you developed a conscience? What a burden it must be to you.

I wondered, late into the darkness, why malevolence in the elderly should be so much more frightening than in the young. Is it because they were supposed to be wiser? Nobler? Or simply because we liked to believe they were past such passions? It was comforting to think that the sharper emotions could simply dull with time, taking the worst of our suffering with them.

I gave him a watery smile. "There is an old Spanish proverb: 'Take what you want. Take it, said God. And pay.'" "We have paid every minute of our lives. Let someone else pay,

It's shocking the things we call love.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

I don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

Thousands of years of tradition. People don't see the humanity that lies in the animals, same as people don't see the animal that is within humans. The first time I saw Jum, she was trying to lift her dead brother up with her trunk. She was trying to get him to stand again. She'd even stuffed grass in his mouth to try to get him to eat

There was no question that it was a necessary divorce, but that didn't make it less painful. You don't think it will hurt, leaving a marriage like that, do you? But it's the same misguided thinking that makes people ask, after your mother dies, how old she was. If she was ninety, the bereavement isn't supposed to be as crushing. But of course it is. Of course. There's no equation for loss.

You have the ability to just go on and forget people and how much they are meant, but I don't. You can people in their own little boxes and leave them there. So much for love. So much for soul mates. I'm sorry you don't want to believe the best or how I can change. You put a stake through the heart. I'm the only one who cared enough to suffer like this.

Her whole life is devouring her, slow second by slow second.

Distress leads to dimness.

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

Right beneath the numerous sufferings in life lies the precious gift called success.

When we suffer we inspire ourselves to change. Imagine we had no pain to overcome, we would not take action to make our life any more meaningful. Turn your suffering into motivation to change.

Jesus Christ suffered, to bear the sin of mankind.

The pain that you've been feeling, can't compare to the joy that's coming.

In deep suffering, you know the sacred soul.

Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious.

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.

Pain is a physical discipline.

If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?

All the pain on the outside can not undo what is felt on the inside.

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.