Quotes About Suffering

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist.

my insides feeling eviscerated

Apparently we'd been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.

Dobbiamo amare ciò che è stato ferito, perché tutto è stato ferito. E amare le ferite vuol dire avere a cuore il mondo. Vuol dire essere vivi. Vuol dire che il mondo è vivo.

The way back was harder, and no getting around that-no truth I learned struggling back, except that life is struggle. It placed me in some gray realm beyond, a landscape of exertion and anguish. I had nothing left to give, and yet still I had something left it give.

But by then, whenever this was, the Strange Bird did not want to live, or did not know she could live, and that was the same thing in the end.

The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.

Sufrió a manos de los malvados en Su primera aparición, pero vencerá y reinará sobre los malvados en Su segunda aparición.

Dependent people often allow themselves to be abused, subjugated, or deprived in order to maintain the dependence. They will do almost anything to keep the person with them.

Someone in your family seemed to get pleasure from seeing you suffer.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

In our moments of pain and trial, I guess we would shudder to think it could be worse, but without the atonement it not only could be worse, it would be worse.

You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ's character and His call for us to be His disciples.

Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit of His disciples the wounds in His hands and in His feet and in His side-signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect; signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn't love you; signs, if you will, that problems pass and happiness can be ours.

Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.

Nothing in this world is more burdensome than sin—it is the heaviest cross men and women ever bear.