Quotes About Suffering

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.