Quotes About Suffering

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

Pain is handed down from one generation to the next.

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I'm Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world—it's everywhere, but we just don't see it.

Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.

You are probably not regularly being threatened with being enslaved, imprisoned, beaten, raped, or robbed. But if you were among the world's poorest billions, you would be.

If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.

Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

The restorative touch of our wounded healer, Jesus, highlights our brokenness, letting others know we're distinctly God's. — Scoti Springfield Domeij —

Grief is a common denominator through which God's love can flow. — Mary Fran Heitzman —

Grief is a common denominator through which God's love can flow.

And he touched the man's ear and healed him. —Luke 22:51

Some came to me because the inner ache had become unbearable.

He humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross. —Philippians 2:8

God loves us enough to redeem everything in our lives. — Elsi Dodge —

For he has not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy. He has not turned his back on them, but has listened to their cries for help. —Psalm 22:24

Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. —Hebrews 5:8

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

I am not supposed to see this God. No person is supposed to see this. How can You let this happen?

When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.

Everyone struggles. Each life comes with a long catalog of pain.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.