Quotes About Suffering

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves."—Robert Ingersoll

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

Heaven, for the climate. Hell, for the company.

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.

people were losing their humanity and capable of all kinds of cruelties. They did not seem to care very deeply about one another and felt rather superior to any kind of outsider. If they could only see what she had seen—how our time is so short, how everyone must suffer and die—it would alter their way of life; it would make them grow up; it would melt all their coldness.

and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mineshafts into her and drag out her entrails—and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finger. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger?

The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution.

Oh, what a world we make, oppressor and oppressed. Our world-- this violent ghetto, slum of the spirit raging against itself. We hate kill destroy in the name of human good our killing and our hate destroy.

all art is pain suffered and outlived

O Jesus burning on the lily cross... O night, rawhead and bloodybones night... O night betrayed by darkness not its own.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." Robert Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGELAND

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two

Pain was as much a part of life as breathing.

What could not be changed must be endured.

He now felt just that. Pity for a woman who had never known love, a woman who would not let herself know it. Pity for a woman who could not choose a side other than her own.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him.

Mat's other blade stabbed into his chest, he squealed, eyes

A pure mathematician must leave to happier colleagues the great task of alleviating the sufferings of humanity.

She's dead, Rick. My daughter is dead... But you know what? We all are. We're all dead -you, me, Carol, Lori, Dale- everyone. The only difference between us and Julie is that she doesn't have to put up with all the bullshit we do. She's resting, she's got no troubles on her mind - nothing creeping out every corner trying to kill her. My little girl is at peace. Seems to me that ain't something to be sad about.