Quotes About Suffering

Sólo sufres en proporción al daño que tú mismo te haces, a título personal, o el que recibes de los demás concediéndoles el derecho de hacértelo.

Even the outer God must hide, ere the Inner God can manifest; the cry of agony of the Crucified must be wrung from the tortured lips; "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" precedes the realisation of the God within.

Tout de même, supporter tant de mépris... Vronski, pire que Vronski.

Il y avait d'un côté la souffrance, de l'autre la pensée incapable de s'exercer sur autre chose que le constat et l'analyse de cette souffrance.

the pain I was about to inflict on myself would be nothing compared to the suffering experienced in death camps. This thought gave me courage and heightened my determination. Also, knowing that hundreds of other women had been through the same thing was a comfort to me.

De huit heures à dix heures, c'est le noir, il n'appelle pas et j'attends. Voilà. Et je ne pense même pas à ce moment-là, comme Proust, qu'il suffirait d'un rien, d'un peu de volonté, pour ne plus souffrir, crever ce cerceau de papier au-delà duquel je serais libre.

Il devient quelque chose de déjà perdu, et je souffre moins. De tout. Comme de son silence. « Je t'appellerai dès que je rentre. » Mais sait-il le sens exact de « dès que » ? Il doit être rentré hier. Tout de même. Dominique L. me parle de La Havane : il y a des boîtes de nuit, petites, où il fait presque noir.

Ella no se somete a él, sino a una ley indiscutible, universal, la de la brutalidad masculina que, de todas todas, tarde o temprano, le habría tocado sufrir. Que la ley en cuestión sea feroz y sucia, es así y no hay vuelta de hoja.

She is why purgatory was invented.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?

O Dionysus, Son of God, do you see our sufferings? Do you see your faithful in helpless agony before the oppressor? O Lord, come down from Olympus, shake your golden thyrsus and stifle the murderer's insolent fury.

Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.

AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.