Quotes About Suffering

E, por outro lado, o que seria pior? A dor da felicidade perdida ou a amargura gelada do não vivido, da felicidade nunca atingida?

Dice que la Dama pertenece a un tipo de personas que ella, Nyneve, conoce muy bien y que aborrece: aquellas que han sufrido un dolor y que por eso se creen justificadas para cometer cualquier tropelía, como si los demás individuos les debieran algo para siempre.

El mundo estaba lleno de historias tártaras, de realidades atroces y dolientes, de horrores tan redondos y completos que no nos cabían dentro de la cabeza. Porque los infiernos que podemos imaginar son siempre menos crueles que los auténticos.

supe lo que era el dolor psíquico, que es devastador por lo inefable.

Si puedes hablar de lo que te acongoja estás de suerte: eso significa que no es tan importante. Porque cuando el dolor cae sobre ti sin paliativos, lo primero que te arranca es la #Palabra.

Las mujeres padecemos el maldito síndrome de la redención.

El verdadero dolor es una ballena demasiado grande para poder ser arponeada.

La pena es pura y es sagrada.

la vida siempre acaba mal? Según una tradición gitana, si acudes a un festejo social, a una boda, a un bautizo, no debes desear felicidades, como es habitual, sino «malos principios». Porque, con sabiduría milenaria forjada por unas condiciones de vida difíciles, conocen que la desgracia es inevitable en la existencia; y entonces prefieren desear que la cuota de dolor venga primero, para que así el final sea venturoso.

En el origen de la creatividad está el sufrimiento, el propio y el ajeno.

Que el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Es ésta una sabiduría muy dolorosa, desde luego, porque supone admitir el sinsentido de la existencia. Bajo este punto de vista, todo, desde el sufrimiento hasta la heroicidad, no es más que un ciego capricho del universo, una broma colosal de la materia.

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the ageold questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy.

As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the age-old questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy. I hope so much that no one has sought to try and comfort you by saying that God must have needed Francesca more than you. I would find it impossible to worship a God who deliberately stole my child from me. Such a God would be a moral monster.

torture and killing were as ingrained a part of their lives and beliefs as breathing. Such behavior was expected by the Comanche.

Adán: ¡Dios mío! Eva: No lo llames. ¿Para qué lo quieres? Adán: Para pedirle que no nos castigue. Eva: ¿Qué más castigo quieres que esta vida ociosa sin perspectivas de progreso ni de cambio sin nada? Adán: Pero éramos tan felices... No nos faltaba nada. Eva: No deséabamos nada, que es distinto. Y no éramos felices. Éramos egoistas y cobardes. La categoría humana no se recibe; se conquista.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith. If God were to take away all His blessings, health, physical fitnes, wealth, intelligence, and leave me but one gift, I would ask for faith –- for with faith in Him, in His goodness, mercy, love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of my other gifts and still be happy....

So then Joseph knew that he had no idea how to escape from the darkness closing round him, unless it might be to engineer his own death,...

Why did the fire not consume me? Why is suffering so arbitrary? If God exists, He is surely cruel. He is the old and terrible God of Moses, the God of Abraham. But the most logical conclusion is that He does not exist at all.

Although Emilie Perle had schooled him well in how to love without being loved in return, he could now see how this state of lovelessness had made him obsessive in his quest for superficial order and control.

Birinin ac?s?, diÄŸerinin kazanc?d?r, ha, Efendim? Bu gerçeÄŸi biliriz deÄŸil mi?

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Christians will be found in the neighbourhood of Jesus – but Jesus is found in the neighbourhood of human confusion and suffering, defencelessly alongside those in need. If being baptized is being led to where Jesus is, then being baptized is being led towards the chaos and the neediness of a humanity that has forgotten its own destiny.

A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."34