Quotes About Suffering

God direct you according to them, and comfort you! All my fear was (and that more particularly for some of the last past months) that I should have been the mournful survivor. In a very few moments all my sufferings will be over; and God give you, when you come to this unavoidable period of all human vanity, the same happy prospects that are now opening to me! O Sir, believe me, all worldly joys are now nothing; less than nothing:

I never saw the approaches of death in a grown person before; and was extremely shocked. Death, to one in health, is a very terrible thing. We pity the person for what she suffers: and we pity ourselves for what we must some time hence in like sort suffer; and so are doubly affected.

But gomers are not just dear old people," said Fats. "Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them. We're cruel to the gomers, by saving them, and they're cruel to us, by fighting tooth and nail against our trying to save them. They hurt us, we hurt them.

Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.

Water, water everywhere Nor any drop to drink.

Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

Every pain be gold.

because in point of fact we would have come flying if we had known remotely how much he was suffering.

they cried out desperately for help, for pity, for water, for air, for a scrap of humanity.

because in spite of the most terrible suffering, the heart goes on loving; that is the beauty of love.

A todos nos pasa como a Cristo, al final nos reconocen por las heridas.

Porque las guerras no se ganan ni se pierden, solamente se sufren. Y todo el que ha estado en una guerra, así salga ileso, es un herido de guerra.

El dolor es egoísta. El que sufre se siente único y piensa que el mundo le debe algo

No estaba herida. Sólo gritaba de dolor. El fiscal se sentó entre una anciana mamacha que lloraba en quechua y un policía con un corte en la mano que goteaba sangre. Abril Rojo

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

Each was over fifty and poor, probably homeless, wearing clothes that hadn't been washed this year. They were the same type of man you could see in any city in America, in a little park or square just off downtown, halfway to skid row. I think they started making them after the Civil War; fighters who'd lost their wars and lost their fight. Even when their side won, they lost.

It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

Indeed, for social solidarity to take widespread hold, it may be especially important that elites—the "rich," the "learned," and the "authorities"—undergo their share of the suffering

I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

I knew whatever I said right then she wouldn't hear; with that kind of pain, a deafness comes.