Quotes About Suffering

Querer es esencialmente sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda vida es por esencia dolor.

What we do to the animals is perhaps their hell

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The pedagogy of suffering means that one who suffers has something to teach, just as Gail claims, and thus has something to give, as Mairs recognizes.

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

People—communities, castes, races and even countries—carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on the open market.

In the country that she came from, poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace, Worse Things kept happening.

Il est capable de mettre au jour la douleur qui est au coeur du bonheur. (p.305)

We're Prisoners of War," Chacko said. "Our dreams have been doctored. We belong nowhere. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter.

A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

D'you know why God made Hijras? It was an experiment. He decided to create something, a living creature that is incapable of happiness. So he made us.

For one struck down by Cupid's bow Life becomes burdensome, isn't that so?

He didn't know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. And that personal despair could never be desperate enough.

Once you have fallen off the edge like all of us have, you will never stop falling. And as you fall you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is baqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist

In the years to come, when the war became a way of life, there would be books and films and photo exhibitions curated around the theme of Kashmir's grief and loss.

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

What I know for sure is only this: in our Kashmir the dead will live forever; and the living are only dead people, pretending.

La maladie, ce n'est pas le terrorisme, c'est l'extrême injustice

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? —PABLO NERUDA

Gandhi always said that he wanted to live like the poorest of the poor. The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power.