Quotes About Suffering

I weep again for your hardship," said Locke. "Forced by cruel circumstance to throw garden parties.

Oh...ow! Gods, Please. Ow! You said you...wouldn't kill me!" "And I meant it. I'm not going to kill you, you cabbage-brained twit. I'm just going to kick you until it stops feeling good!" "Ow! Agggh! Please! Aaaaow!" "I have to say, it's still pretty fascinating." "Aiiiah! Ow!" " Still enjoying myself." "Oooof! Agh!

life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.

There is no last of the pain," said Bug. "It always hurts. Always." Locke

The world is cruel enough without our compounding it; I approve.

life's a bottomless feast of shit.

he learned anew how slowly time could crawl when there was some misery to dwell on.

That Christ was to be born of a woman, as the seed of Abraham through Isaac and of the fourth son of Jacob is clear. That the Messiah would be a prophet like Moses and a sin-bearer for the race and that he would suffer and die as the means of propitiation are right there. Where he would be born, his earthly poverty, the precise circumstances of his death, and the certainty of his resurrection from the dead are all laid out in meticulous detail.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

compassion and humanity are the first casualties of any war.

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?

Yes...blood is the price of all things.

away—a sixty-mile round-trip with Hoel was about as much fun as a barbed-wire enema.

The miserable misery of the miser

Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.

A panic attack is interesting the way a broken leg or a kidney stone is interesting—a pain that you want to end.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more in apprehension than in reality,

Anxiety," he wrote, "is apprehension about future suffering—the fearful anticipation of an unbearable catastrophe one is hopeless to prevent." For Dr. W., the defining signature of anxiety, and what makes it more than a pure animal instinct, is its orientation toward the future.

If we expect to suffer, we are anxious," Darwin wrote in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. "If we have no hope of relief, we despair.")

You accept that it happened. But you know that life burned this hole in your heart and it's not going to heal.

All of us--bright atheists and committed religionists--need to wake now and hear the earth call . . . . We need to give and receive as love shows us how, join with each pilgrim who quests for the true, give heed to the voices of the suffering, awaken our consciences with justice as our guide, and work toward a planet transformed by our care.

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. (Rom. 8:18–21 NIV)

Lord, may it hurt so good, if growth will reveal your grace and glory in my life.