Quotes About Suffering

It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people.

The place, which is called Calvary.

Who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands.

How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.

Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad].

Vae victis [Woe to the conquered]!

The world can be changed not by ending suffering, but by a more judicious distribution of it.

One day you will understand why our prophet said that heaven is under the feet of mothers. Because they suffer so much in delivering humanity into existence.

The exceptional status of each human being derives from the unique significance of suffering and flourishing in the context of our remembrances of the past and of the memories we have constructed of the future we incessantly anticipate.

Lá fazê-lo soube-te bem não soube? e não me soube bem fazê-lo, sabe-me bem o pó, sabia-me bem que a minha mamã, nem isso, sabia-me bem ser uma invenção de quem escreve não uma pessoa meu Deus, não me tornem pessoa, dêem-me sensações de papel, sofrimentos de papel, remorsos de papel que a gente rasga e desfaz

In Mangando and Marimbanguengo, I saw the full misery and evil of the war, the pointlessness of it all, in the soldiers' eyes, like those of wounded birds, in their state of despair and abandon, in the second lieutenant in shorts sprawled on the table, the stray dogs gobbling up leftovers on the parade ground, the flag hanging from the flag­pole like a limp penis, I saw it in the twenty-year-old men sitting in the shade in silence, like old men in parks...

Los psiquiatras hablaban estirando el dedo como batutas, hablaban de los otros, hablaban en tono falsamente afectuoso de los otros, del sufrimiento de los otros, de la angustia de los otros, de la perplejidad de los otros, sin entender que estaban muertos, Joana, definitivamente muertos, disertando sobre los vivos con la envidia que anima los gestos fosforescentes y blandos de los difuntos, sus órbitas huecas, sus enormes bocas sin dientes.

a ausência de talento é uma bênção, verificou ele; só que custa a gente habituar-se a isso. E assumida a sua condição de homem comum reduzido aos raros voos de perdiz de uma poesia ocasional, sem a corcunda da imortalidade agarrada às costas, sentia-se livre para sofrer sem originalidade e dispensado de rodear os seus silêncios da muralha de taciturna inteligência que associava ao génio.

The proclamation of bruised feelings, the desperate plea for the correction of individual pain and suffering, the inchoate cry for the loss of a never-achieved sense of inner balance and happiness to which most humans aspire are not likely to diminish soon.4 It would be foolish to ask medicine alone to heal a sick culture, but it is just as foolish to ignore that aspect of human disease.

People were often good, and did good things, such as the things that had been done to help after Vesuvius erupted, but as soon as those same people were given any authority or power, they abused it, or ignored the human consequences of their actions. And the people who ended up suffering most were always the women, because they had no authority or power