Quotes About Suffering

She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.

Soul-ache doesn't worry folks near as much as stomach-ache.

Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

It doesn't hurt to love if you do not hope to be loved in return. I've never hoped to be loved in return--but it hurts damnably, said Roger.

And, like all female creatures, you form your opinions by your feelings. Well, hope for your thrilling career--but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you--then someone else. Oh, no, I wouldn't like that. Then be content with fewer thrills.

The body grows slowly and steadily, but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. From that night Rilla Blythe's soul was the soul of a woman in its capacity for suffering, for strength, for endurance.

what perverted shapes thwarted love can take.

Pero hay un consuelo, se ahorrará un montón de problemas y sufrimientos si muere joven.

Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering

You're coming to Him not to get Him to enter your world and change things to make you happy and give your life meaning and provide you with the blessings you want. You're now entering His world wanting to bring Him glory, to become a source of joy to your Papa, willing to endure whatever suffering is required to make that happen.

nos importa más la curación de nuestros sufrimientos que el perdón de nuestros pecados; consideramos que la bondad de Dios se da por sentado y no nos maravillamos de la sorpresa de la gracia; pensamos que su objetivo es ayudarnos en el presente más que desarrollar en nosotros una mayor humildad.

Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.

His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.

And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.

We're in the hands of infinite power and infinite sadism.

Basically, though, there is just one teaching—the Four Noble Truths—and all of the Buddha's other teachings fit within that framework: there is suffering; there is a cause for that suffering; there is an end to it, and there is a means to that end.

Tita bajó la cabeza y con la misma fuerza con que sus lágrimas cayeron sobre la mesa, así cayó sobre ella su destino. Y desde ese momento supieron ella y la mesa que no podían modificar ni tantito la dirección de esas fuerzas desconocidas que la obligaban, a la una, a compartir con Tita su sino, recibiendo sus amargas lágrimas desde el momento en que nació, y a la otra a asumir esa absurda determinación

Esa niña estaba destinada a perderlo todo para encontrarlo todo, porque solamente alguien que se vacía puede ser llenado de nuevo.

It occurred to her that she could use her mother's strength right now. Mama Elena was merciless, killing with a single blow. But then again not always. For Tita she had made an exception; she had been killing her a little at a time since she was a child, and she still hadn't quite finished her off.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God…

The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.