Quotes About Suffering

Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

Our concern is the invisible wounding from war. The physical wounds are most visible to our veterans who deserve first concern. But in truth we are all wounded. Grandparents, parents, siblings, children, friends, neighbors, care providers, teachers, taxpayers are all caught in war's long and crushing tentacles. Our entire society reels in pain, exhaustion, despair, and debt. Look closely. All lives are affected and we all need be concerned.

With God, anything is bearable. Without God we are cast adrift, cut off from real life. This is why those who have God need very little in the way of things. They're already content. Already far along the path to freedom.

Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25

She told me about a group of people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads. They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

We are not meant to be in this country. We did not want to come. We were forced to flee or die. Americans perceive desperate brown masses swarming at their golden shores, wildly inventing claims of persecution for the opportunity to flourish in this prosperous land. The view from beneath the bridge is somewhat different: reluctant refugees with an aching love of their forsaken homeland, of a homeland that has forsaken them, refugees who desire nothing more than to be home again.

Love is Free, Its the Pain in the end, you pay for.

Alone, he saw the slanting waves roll in, Each to its impotent annihilation In a long wash of foam, until the sound Become for him a warning and a torture, Like a malign reproof reiterating In vain its cold and only sound of doom.

Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss Its spokes of agony, Its tire of tears, its nave of nothingness.

Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will "naturally" choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.

Cry on the world tragedies, cruelties, and injustice, how long and much you can if you have the heart.

Don't only look at my smile; realize the pain too; I hide in it and bear.

Every prophet suffered from his people; thus, every virtuous person suffers from vicious people.

Every war, before defeat or victory, causes damage to all dimensions.

Love makes happy only one heart but causes many broken hearts.

Love-diagnosis, diagnoses: Suffering from Love allergy; and for that the prescription, and remedy, also Love is; otherwise, such allergy prevails. A significant remedy of sex-frustration is only Sex that eases and soothes its symptoms.

One that becomes broken, suffering from life tragedies, can't feel pleasure; similarly, the collapsed-building can't shelter, no matter how expensive it was.

Terror with terror may cause a result of hell.

The entire world breathes and lives under Coronavirus arrest as home detention without distinction, while regrettably, no one can predict how long it will stay and where to plead for the hostages of such evil?

The sick and hungry and thirsty, try every possible way everywhere, such ones stay the victim of deceivers easily.

A Zendo is not a peaceful haven but a furnace room for the combustion of our egotistical delusions.