Quotes About Suffering

Art is the desperate cry of those who experience in themselves the fate of humanity.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzak ontbreekt'.

Het vieze geheimpje van veel depressies. Eigenlijk is er een ander die gepijnigd en gestraft moet worden, maar omdat die ander onvindbaar is of omdat men beschaafd genoeg is om de ander met rust te laten, straft men zichzelf.

Het effect van de schoonheid was geen genot, geen begeestering, geen verzoening met het leven, maar pijn. Kramp.

If we ignore pain long enough, it will eventually go away. But by the time it does, we may have caused lasting and permanent damage, and a new pain will enter our lives, which is often worse than the first.

Pain is important. It acts as a warning. It tells us that we are damaging ourselves in some way.

Is that you? When you fail, are you too humiliated or ashamed to ask for help? When you suffer, are you too embarrassed to ask for more support and comfort?

Believe me, I had my share of "why" questions. I turned my eyes upward again and again , and in my heart I asked why I, an ordinary human, should be bearing such an extraordinary burden of pain and grief. Why I was the one picked to deal with such a tortuous twist of fate? It all seemed so unjust. I had reached a point where I had to get answers to some questions that were inside me. Shutting myself into the world of my heart and mind, I wondered, "Why? Why? Why?

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from - I cannot name it. But I am separated.

If you want to be a private eye, you have to get used to such things as hideous depression and abject despair.

I started the chapter by noting he connected with people through his weakness—the thorn in his flesh. But it was his words of sadness and suffering at the end of his life that magnetized the Christian faith for the ages as one of authentic human experience—a faith that understands the pain in ordinary lives and the human reaction to it.

So ask yourself: Which type of person do you want to be? One who declines with seeming indifference while suffering privately? Or one who—like Paul—acknowledges loss openly and yet maintains faith, believes in the power of love, and continues to serve others? Your decline, as painful as it is, should be experienced—and shared.

It's a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering," replied Colbert. "I don't want it to have happened . . . but if you are grateful for your life . . . then you have to be grateful for all of it. You can't pick and choose what you're grateful for.

The key, as Colbert and Frankl suggest, is finding meaning in the suffering and sharing that meaning. I

There is a big scholarly literature on the high correlation between creative genius and mental suffering, which Sigmund Freud termed "the problem of the creative artist."[12]

However, loneliest of all are those who are married but with an "absent spouse." (Workaholics, take note: your spouse is probably lonely—and suffering as a result.)

Great gifts and achievements early in life are simply not an insurance policy against suffering later on. On the contrary, studies show that people who have chased power and achievement in their professional lives tend to be unhappier after retirement than people who did not.

Over the next several days, the truth emerged to Siddhartha—that release from suffering comes not from renunciation of the things of the world, but from release from attachment to those things.

The term 'violence' refers to an event or an action that 'violates' some aspect of human life. Violence, then, is always connected with suffering. But not all suffering involves the quality of violence. The pain of guilt that a person feels may be so deep and may spread through his awareness so gradually that not fore of 'violence' is detectable.

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.