Quotes About Suffering

The birth, sufferings, crucifixion, death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ did not just showcase his passion, perseverance and true love to humanity. Furthermore, all of the above do reveals his forgiving spirit. In other words, we ought to forgive all i.e. we should forgive our offenders and enemies even at the point of death (IMHO) in my humble (honest) opinion. ~Emeasoba George

The birth, sufferings, crucifixion, death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ does not just showcase his passion, perseverance and true love to humanity. Furthermore, all of the above do reveals his forgiving spirit. In other words, we ought to forgive all i.e. we should forgive our offenders and enemies even at the point of death IMHO in my humble (honest) opinion.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering

There is no limit to suffering.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

Cînd esti iubit, suferi mai mult decît cînd nu esti. Parasit, te mîngîi prin orgoliu; dar ce consolare mai poti nascoci în fata unei inimi ce ti se deschide?

Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself.

De ce un singuratic simte mai mult? Fiindca singuratatea-i suferinta.

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

A suferi e modul de a fi activ fara sa faci ceva.

To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Animal banished from life, man's condition is tragic, for he no longer finds fulfillment in life's simple values. For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.

Numai dupa ce ai suferit pentru toate lucrurile ai dreptul sa-ti bati joc de ele. Cum o sa calci în picioare ce n-a fost chin?

My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.