Quotes About Suffering

Fin dagli albori della storia umana, la guerra è sempre stata considerata il male più grande. Ma noi avevamo inventato qualcosa al cui confronto la guerra finiva per sembrare pulita e pura.

Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that place.

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Hell was something the Lost Girl knew. She has lived it all her life.

We've all had our moments of weakness and failure. All of us. We've all suffered through dark nights of the soul.

Love was a pathway to cruel pain. It was the arrow that Fate always kept aimed at your back.

Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines.

Some things touch every open heart and wound every soul.

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets.

Pain was the coin that paid the ferryman.

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets. Ghostwalkers

In Jesus' death we see the willingness of God to enter into our suffering as a sacrifice for sin. In his resurrection we see the power of God to overcome the effects of sin.

One of the biggest causes of suffering is social comparison," Coleman said. "Status anxiety is a huge component of this kind of self-torture. Have I achieved enough? Am I a failure? Am I a success?

We are gravely mistaken if we feel that Christianity is a religion to protect us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that there is a Good Friday before every Easter, and that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.

We shed a tear because, for a moment, we allow ourselves to think of the victims of our victories, the pain of the other side, who were enslaving us, but they were still human and they were still suffering. It's when you can feel your opponent's pain that you're beginning the path that leads to reconciliation.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.

Well, if it's so easy, Kitty demanded hotly, "how come the magicians haven't stopped it?" The Djin gave a cold smile, "Because it would require personal bravery. They never do anything themselves. They rely on us the whole time. Mandrake gives me an order and I obey. He sits at home and I go out and suffer. That's the way it works.

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind."

We Burmese people are totally content,' he replied, hazing calmly into my eyes. 'Do you know why? Because we have nothing left. We have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed until there is nothing left.