Quotes About Suffering

Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us. Not everything which hurts may be bad.

Never having been betrayed sets up poor preconditions for remaining faithful. Evolving into genuinely more loyal people requires us to suffer through some properly innoculative episodes, in which we feel for a time limitlessly panicked, violated and on the edge of collapse. Only then can the injunction not to betray our spouses evolve from a bland bromide into a permanently vivid moral imperative.

They therefore have no opportunity to suffer the interval between desire and gratification which the less privileged endure, and which, for all its apparent unpleasantness, has the incalculable benefit of allowing people to know and fall deeply in love with paintings in Dresden, hats, dressing gowns, and someone who isn't free this evening.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...

The whole art of living is to make use of the individuals through whom we suffer.

How comforting to witness a fictional person (who is also, miraculously, ourselves as we read) suffering the same agonies of a saccharine dismissal and, importantly, surviving.

It is not the contented or the glowing who have left many of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.

Saint Augustine consolingly codified unhappiness as an immutable feature of existence, part of the wretchedness of man's situation, and poured scorn on all those theories by which men have tried hard to build up joy for themselves within the misery of this life.

The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money.

PuÈ›ini oameni sunt pur È™i simplu nesuferiÈ›i; cei care r?nesc sunt la rândul lor r?niÈ›i. În aceste condiÈ›ii, reacÈ›ia cuvenit? nu e niciodat? cinismul sau agresiunea, ci, în rarele momente când suntem în stare de ea, iubirea.

Ancak ac?yla tan???nca gözümüzde deÄŸer kazan?r güzel ÅŸeyler. Belki biraz garip ama ac?yla tan???kl?k, mimariyi takdir edebilme yetisinin ön koÅŸuludur. Binalar?n güzelliÄŸinden etkilenebilmek için her ÅŸeyden önce biraz ac? çekmiÅŸ olmam?z gerekir.

I suffer, therefore I am special. I am not understood, but for precisely that reason, I am worthy of greater understanding. 13.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius who interests us.

Our nation isn't just a severed hand, a mutilated grandmother, three dead girls in a basement, embarrassment for a minister, trillions of debt, a double suicide at the railway station and a fatal five-car crash by the coast.

yet men die miserably every day

??ng bao gi? ?? sá»± Ä'au kh? c?a mình tr?m tr?ng thêm b?i ý nghÄ© r?ng có Ä'i?u gì Ä'ó không bình th??ng khi c?m th?y Ä'au Ä'á»›n sâu s?c ??n v?y. N?u ta không th?y Ä'au thì má»›i là b?t bình th??ng.

Love is a trap and only reveals itself to us by making us suffer.

better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza.

How are we affected by an absence of love? Why should being ignored drive us to a rage and impotent despair beside which torture itself would be a relief?- The Importance of Love

Pain is surprising: we cannot understand why we have been abandoned in love or left off an invitation list, why we are unable to sleep at night or wander through pollinating meadows in spring.