Quotes About Suffering

Because I suffer, sir! I'm not philosophizing: I'm crying aloud the reason of my sufferings. THE

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo estoy todavía vivo para la muerte y muerto para la vida. En efecto, ¿qué vida puede ser la mía?

After all, could anything worse befall me that what I had suffered and was still suffering at home? No doubt, I was only heading for new chains, but they surely wouldn't seem heavier than the ones I had just ripped from my ankles...

come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch'egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si scusa.

When you died, you died in small doses. You had trouble speaking. You forgot who was beside you. You were suddenly furious and in a panic of outrage. You wished you could be saintly. You wished you weren't so weak. You suddenly felt better and fooled yourself into believing that a miracle was about to happen. Well, wasn't that all a dirty rotten thing to pull on somebody.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

For every hundred-dollar cock in Candy's cunt, Candy needs a two-hundred-dollar jab in the arm. And I'm Prince Pimp, welcome to the show. I would vomit up my life if I could.

I kept trying to find a way to turn myself so that I couldn't see the telephone poles or be in the path of father's breath. I was feeling dizzy and then very sick and the father was shouting, 'WHAT THE--GO TO THE HEAD, DO IT IN THE HEAD! DON'T PUKE ON ME, CLYDE! CLYDE!' I never did finish my letter to Jesus. I tried for a while but I couldn't think of anything else to say besides, Have a Good Summer and Stay Crazy.

Every heart, it have its own ache.

Not all evil is final, nor is all suffering needless.

I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him? Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. I guess he's more sensitive than I thought. I am NOT sensitive, Cale snapped, irritated by the very suggestion. It's probably his mother's fault, Lucian said, ignoring him. Martine named him after Caliope, the muse of poetry. Between that and his father dying when he was only fifty, he's probably suffered under Martine's namby-pamby influence.

Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it.

Aegle was suffering some mortal bug

What the hell," he breathed "There are worse things than being a sex slave

Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month

The unfairness of it all was rather depressing. Not only did men get to enjoy sex, which from all accounts was painful for the woman, but they didn't have to suffer monthly bleeding, or push huge babies out into the world from their own bodies, which was not only painful but often killed the woman. Truly, it did seem to her that women often got the short end of the stick in life. The

think C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Life is difficult.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine.

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.