Quotes About Suffering

Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,

Per ore, accoccolati sui talloni, a occhi semichiusi, quegli esclusi dalla felicità barattavano la dura realtà con qualche grammo di sogno.

Wherever suffering raised its ugly head, these angels of compassion could be found—in a home, in a relationship, or when mankind decided its conflicts on some forgotten piece of land turned into a graveyard with weapons of war.

Crucifícalo, crucifícalo.

Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani?, que significa: Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has desamparado? 35 Lo oyen algunos de los circunstantes, decían: Vean cómo llama a Elías.

Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss.

As for corruption, who's more corrupt—the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?

Opiates are a response to pain. Physical pain, emotional pain, economic pain. He's looking at all three. The Heroin Trifecta.

it. A junkie goes into the alley alone with the disease, it's the disease that walks out.

You're a hypocrite, he tells himself, using dirty dope money to get yourself clean, using other people's suffering to relieve your own, committing a mortal sin to save your soul.

There are no humanitarians in cages

Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.

Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

You are killing me." " -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

a scientific experiment to test whether new rules of physics could spark fascinating life forms whose creativity and pleasure was worth the pain they suffered.

Saint Joseph has three treasures: Jesus, Mary, and you. Nothing consumes the heart of St. Joseph other than these three treasures. St. Joseph appeared to a shepherd...named Gaspard Ricard. The purer your heart, the purer your sacrifice. The greater your soul, the greater your suffering.

Death of a part is agony - from "The Red Branch

If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.