Quotes About Suffering

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it. You can give anyone pain from a distance.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

For a matter of seconds, he felt an immense satisfaction that he could talk of suffering to them now without hypocrisy--it is hard for the sleek and well-fed priest to praise poverty.

You sacrificed both of us once to bring me back to life, but what sort of a life is this without you.

Pain belongs to you as happiness never does.

If I could suffer like you, I could heal like you.

Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

wasn't only evil men who did these things. Courage smashes a cathedral, endurance lets a city starve, pity kills . . . we are trapped and betrayed by our virtues.

Why did you give Querry Deo Gratias?' 'He's cured, but he's a burnt-out case, and I don't want to send him away. He can sweep a floor and make a bed without fingers or toes.' 'Our visitors are sometimes fastidious.' 'I assure you Querry doesn't mind. In fact he asked for him.

How good You are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

The dead were to be envied. It was the living who had to suffer from loneliness and distrust.

Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy . . . It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of god. You don't need penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough.

She said, 'I would rather die.' 'Oh,' he said, 'of course. That goes without saying. But we must keep on living.

People can love without seeing each other, can't they, they love You all their lives without seeing You, and then he came in at the door, and he was alive, and I thought now the agony of being without him starts, and I wished he was safely back dead again under the door.

Execution shed

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that it is where we really belong.

The cop rolled against the side of the corridor and slid to his knees, leaving a trail of fiercely burning blood on the wall. Then he collapsed and lay still, and in front of our eyes, to our overwhelming horror, the flames that were burning inside him gradually broke out, singeing and then setting fire to his uniform from inside, and then engulfing his whole body until he lay on the carpet blazing like a ritual suicide.

We don't want to live like this, but we don't want to die

Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more the are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.

I now understand why humans smile. Forerunners have done all they can to banish smiles. Not all smiles are about greetings and joy. Some smile in shared pain.

Explain it to me. God says he loves me but dumps me into a world of pain. You, so full of hate, so ignorant, he leaves alone. Self-righteous bigots he doesn't even touch. Explain that to me!

If the Domain is destroyed, I have condemned my husband to an eternity of darkness, silence, with only his own rage and madness to keep him company.

A child born in hell," the white-haired prisoner said. "A child forged by suffering. Hardened by pain." He shook his head sadly at Bruce. "Not a child of privilege.