Quotes About Suffering

At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

My arm hurts all the time now. It hurts right now. It never stops hurting.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Scarlett did take pleasure in it. She bullied the negroes and harrowed the feelings of her sisters not only because she was too worried and strained and tired to do otherwise but because it helped her to forget her own bitterness that everything her mother had told her about life was wrong.

Nina's wrists and ankles were rubbed raw from the handcuffs and ankle cuffs that chained her to the wall. The skin had been whipped from her back; even the slightest touch of her shirt against her spine sent pain shrieking through her body. One of her eyes seemed to be swollen shut from the beating.

The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable. -Antimodes, Soulforge

A chicken with its neck wrung is different from a chicken with its head cut off, but does it matter to the chicken?

Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.

L'hôpital existe à Hiroshima. Comment aurais-je pu éviter de le voir?

She lavishes pain with generosity.

Il se taisait toujours sur les images qu'il voyait derrière ses yeux fermés. On aurait dit qu'il aimait cette douleur, qu'il l'aimait comme il m'avait aimée, très fort, jusqu'à mourir peut-être, et que maintenant il la préférait à moi. »

During this period, they say, Lol's collapse was marked by signs of suffering. But what is one to make of suffering which has no apparent cause?