Quotes About Suffering

Hace calor aquí- dije. -Si, y esto no es nada- me contestó el otro. Cálmese. Ya lo sentirá más fuerte cuando lleguemos a Comala. Aquello está sobre las brasas de la tierra, en la mera boca del infierno. Con decirle que muchos de los que allí se mueren, al llegar al infierno regresan por su cobija.

To be injured means that one has the chance to reflect upon injury, to find out the mechanisms of its distribution, to find out who else suffers from permeable borders, unexpected violence, dispossession, and fear, and in what ways.

It is one matter to suffer violence and quite another to use that fact to ground a framework in which one's injury authorizes limitless aggression against targets that may or may not be related to the sources of one's own suffering.

Fate had already done everything it could to torment her.

I feel like hell...I ache all over, but mostly inside.

When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her. 'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?' 'It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his job to help you through it.

You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her. 'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?' 'It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his Job to help you through it." ? Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

I didn't know it was the booze, always the booze, that brought on the darkness.

In an interview after Just Roll Tape was released, Stephen (Stills) said: "There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. I've had my share of success and failure at all three.

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel.

Especialmente la medicina era un culto satánico porque lucha contra la enfermedad que era un merecido castigo de Dios, porque al curar el cuerpo se obstaculizaba el camino del alma hacia el cielo.

El domingo, después del oficio, había bastantes enfermos; pedían socorros y se les daba sólo palabras: -Has pecado y Dios te aflige. Da gracias, menos tendrás que sufrir en la otra vida. Resígnate, sufre, muere. La Iglesia tiene plegarias para sus difuntos.- Débiles, desmadejados, sin esperanza, ni ganas de vivir, seguían bien este consejo y dejaban escapar la vida.

This was a dog that had lived a nightmare of a life and still never whined or howled or cried out of pain or discomfort. You don't make a sound, I learned from Wonder, when no one ever comes to see how you're doing.

Duniya ne kaha kabhi kisi ko khuch diya hain jo diya hain woh bhi chin liya hain

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition.

What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.

I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.

The wicked and the unhappy always stole the show because sin and suffering were the most universal human experiences.

and so give your uncommon readers a chance to join you in the solidarity of pain and love and the vision of human possibility. But isn't it enough? For lack of the full heart's desire, won't it serve?

That have I borne, this can I bear also.

I am concerned with gloomier matters: the condition of being flesh, susceptible to pain, infected with consciousness and the consciousness of consciousness, doomed to death and the awareness of death. My life stains the air around me. I am a tea bag left too long in the cup, and my steepings grow darker and bitterer.

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.