Quotes About Suffering

There are some remedies worse than disease.

I didn't cry when I asked him what it felt like, suffering with whatever had befallen him, and he replaid, It's something that's been inside me for a long time. And you fight and fight and fight against it for so long, but then it just crashes over you and pulls you down

Well it happened, you know? And There's nothing we can do about it now. You can blame and blame yourself, thinking og thw things you might've done differently, or ask if maybe it was her time, and ask if this has something to do with god, maybe, but sometimes I think things just happen. There's nothing you can do about it-you just gotta deal with it. Sometimes life really sucks. you know? sometimes it just sucks

I didn't want to talk, mostly because I didn't cry, mostly because I was numb. But didn't they realize I was trying to spare them from my pain?

Sufferers are more than the sum of their suffering, but the rest of the world doesn't see that.

You Know What They Say About Hope. It Breeds Eternal Misery. -Spencer Hastings

Brock, would be leaving their phones at home. Which sounded like a particularly torturous circle of hell.

Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

Women the world over suffer restrictions.

Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine, To seek no strength in waving reeds Nor shade beneath a straggling pine; Unless I learn to look at Grief Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes, And take from Pleasure fearlessly Whatever gifts will make me wise— Unless I learn these things on earth, Why was I ever given birth?

There is always an element of suffering even in the happiness of the Russian people, and without it their happiness is incomplete - Dostoyevsky

He was religious, very religious indeed, this uncle of mine, and after the death of my aunt he became a Carthusian monk. As I write these lines, ill and aged as he is, and bent with pain, I know he is digging his own grave, weak with the weight of the spade, imploring God to take him, and thinking sometimes of me, of his little Bohemian. Ah, the dear, good man, it is to him that I owe all that is best in me.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.