Quotes About Suffering

O que demasia na gente é a força feia do sofrimento, própria, não é a qualidade do sofrente.

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

How can rape, murder, war, and illness be loving acts? [...] all events happen for the greater good, that nothing is accidental or without the capacity to spur our evolution as loving co-creators with God.

As you watch television, read the newspaper or magazines, or encounter suffering in any form, send lovingkindness blessings. The world doesn't need any more anger or indignation, but it could certainly use more love.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Life-threatening illness calls us to a place—metaphorically a desert or mountain peak—where, as we sit, the hard wind of reality strips away all the trappings of life, like so much clothing, makeup, and accessories.

the way out of the storm and mud of suffering, the way back to freedom on the high edge of strength and courage, is through the power of compassion.

There are 2 ways of crying-on the outside or from the inside-and I've been crying on the inside most of my life.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

You may discover that when there is no resistance to totally being in hell, heaven opens up and samsara reveals its true nature as nirvana.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton

The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

like an emotional tooth-ache, bearable much of the time but with a propensity to flare up without notice and cause agony.

If God gave Dad Alzheimer's, He's got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

Oturma odas?nda kan görmekten herkes korkar, 'Ac? çeken birini görmeye dayanam?yorum,' derler, 'Onun için git, d??ar?da öl!

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?

Cehennem'in eÅŸiÄŸine gelmiÅŸ kiÅŸilerin ÅŸeytandan ödü kopuyordu; zaten cehennemin içinde olanlar içinse ÅŸeytan özel biri deÄŸildi, yaln?zca baÅŸka biriydi, o kadar.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.

I believe Williams was the only one of us, except perhaps Ronald Tolkien, from whom Lewis learnt any of his thinking. It was Charles Williams who expounded to him the doctrine of co-inherence and the idea that one had power to accept into one's own body the pain of someone else, through Christian love. This was a power...he had been allowed to use to ease the suffering of his wife, a cancer victim

The primary function of mental pain, says Lewis, is to force our misdirectedness on our attention. But just as it belongs to our fallen state to be blind to holiness until we suffer the consequences of sin, and blind to a higher good until natural satisfactions are snatched from us; so equally it belongs to our state that we cannot achieve disinterestedness until it costs us pain.

When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.