Quotes About Suffering

if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?

Danki," John said. But Naomi noticed he didn't look very happy about it. Nick pulled the van up to the ER entrance and they piled in—Naomi and Leah in

I know what it looks like when someone's pushing the whole world away and how much you can lose while you're doing it.

Remember my mother—how much she suffered before she died, how thin and gray she seemed after so much surgery? I don't picture her that way anymore. I picture her as she was before she got sick.

But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

New laws, new restrictions, new regulations, were put in place regularly. The purpose was always to crush, to destroy, not to aid. They were being bled white all in the guise of the greater good.

Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so theatrical. Pesumably attractive men and probably woman too must always be suffering in this way; they must so often have to reject and cast aside love, and perhaps even practice did not always make them ruthless and cold-blooded enough to do it without feeling any qualms.

Perhaps it's better to be unhappy than not to feel anything at all,' I said.

Desconfio que é tão fácil ser infeliz num lugar grande quanto num pequeno, ou sentir-se acorrentada quando se tem a bênção de mil liberdades. Para uma criatura de asas, sentir-se presa à terra; para um pássaro, não perceber que a porta da gaiola está aberta.

I would rather love with all my heart and soul and mind for one hour than to suffer all my life with the lack.

Ivo had grown more and more like one of those characters in his books who are always groaning about their miserable fate in helplessly loving someone unworthy of their love. Maugham never says much about what that's like for the poor old unworthy object. I could have told him. It's not exactly uplifting for the self-image.

In village games, players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of cheeks ripped open or eyes scratched out by the frantic animal's claws. Trumpets enhanced the excitement.

Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: "Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Plagues had been known before, from the plague of Athens (believed to have been typhus)

He said, "McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man.

Everything took on the color of blood.

Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher

As a result, the chief victim of the belligerents was their respective peasantry.

Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end "death is seen seated on the face.

Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Many who lived through the next thirty days of mounting combat, agony, and terror were to remember the sound of endless, repetitious masculine singing as the worst torment of the invasion.

Two firing squads marched to the center of the square, faced either way and fired till no more of the targets stood upright. Six hundred and twelve bodies were identified and buried, including Felix Fivet, aged three weeks.

In this country, land of the 24-hour news channels, it's easy to "suffer" from news exhaustion, but for me there's something in me that cries out when I hear about the suffering of others in these ultimately meaningless conflicts. How can I declare them meaningless when people are dying?

We have a bitter power who laugh at pain, Who laugh and laugh -- for tears are shed in vain.