Quotes About Suffering

Que haveria de olhar ou amar? Que palavras ainda ouviria com prazer, meus amigos? Nenhuma! Só me resta pedir-vos: levai-me para longe daqui sem demora. Eu vos peço: levai, meus amigos, o maldito, motivo de horror, odiado por deuses e homens!

Vede bem, habitantes de Tebas, meus concidadãos! Este é Édipo, decifrador dos enigmas famosos; ele foi um senhor poderoso e por certo o invejastes em seus dias passados de prosperidade invulgar. Em que abismos de imensa desdita ele agora caiu! Sendo assim, até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes dele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!

Pero éstas me han salvado; éstas me alimentan; éstas son hombres, no mujeres, para sufrir conmigo; que vosotros, como si os hubiera engendrado otro, no yo.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave.

Life has become a bitter drink to me, and yet it must be taken in drops, counted one by one.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.

No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is ever asked when he wishes to leave.

Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.

What I complain of is that life is not like a novel where there are hard-hearted fathers, and goblins and trolls to fight with, enchanted princesses to free. What are all such enemies taken together compared to the pallid, bloodless, glutinous nocturnal shapes with which I fight and to which I myself give life and being.

Just as gold is purified in the fire, so the soul is purified in sufferings.

Mükemmel aÅŸk, insan?n kendisini mutsuz edecek kiÅŸiyi sevmesidir.

My life is utterly meaningless

Job endured everything — until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If only I can keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge

When indeed does the temporal suffering oppress a man most terribly? Is it not when it seems to him that it has no significance, that it neither secures nor gains anything for him? Is it not when the suffering, as the impatient man expresses it, is without meaning or purpose?

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.

The unhappy person is one who has his ideal, the content of his life, the fullness of his consciousness, the essence of his being, in some manner outside of himself. The unhappy man is always absent from himself, never present to himself. But one can be absent, obviously, either in the past or in the future. This adequately circumscribes the entire territory of the unhappy consciousness.

let us speak of the wish and thereby of the sufferings; let us properly linger over this, convinced that one may learn more profoundly and more reliably what the highest is by considering suffering than by observing achievements, where so much that is distracting is present.

From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.

If a man in truth wills the Good then he must be willing to suffer all for the Good.

People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

De esta manera el cristianismo tiene siempre consuelo, y su consuelo se distingue de todo consuelo humano en que este siempre es consciente de ser únicamente una compensación por la pérdida de la alegría: el consuelo cristiano es la alegría.