Quotes About Suffering

Habría sido una buena mujer -dijo el Desequilibrado- si hubiese tenío a alguien cerca que le disparara cada minuto de su vida.

But there are times when the sharpest suffering is not to suffer and the worse affliction not to be afflicted.

El camino a la desesperación es renunciar a cualquier tipo de experiencia.

The disappointment, brokenness, suffering, and pain that characterize life in this present world is held in dynamic tension with the promise of future glory that is yet to come. In that Advent tension, the church lives its life.

the two poles of Christ's exalted divinity and his suffering humanity as explicitly as does Hebrews. The result of this undertaking — the salvation of humanity — from out of the inner being of the Holy Trinity is, incredibly, that the hearts and minds of sinful human beings should be eternally perfected and at rest in the near presence of the heavenly Father.

Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.