Quotes About Suffering

Malungkot at naninimdim ang dukhà. Sa gabing iyon, kung bahagya mang nagdasal ay nanalangin namang labis, nagdurusa ang mga mata't lumuluha ang puso. Wala siyang mga nobena, hindi alam ang mga jaculatoria, ni ang mga berso, ni ang mga oremus na kinatha ng mga fraile upang gamitin ng mga walang sariling isip ni sariling damdamin.

And you, your religion created for a suffering multitude, have you forgotten your mission of consoling the oppressed in their misery, and humbling the hubris of power, and now render promises only to the rich, those who can pay?

But the poor and the indigent, who scarcely made enough money to keep body and soul together, and had to bribe petty bureaucrats, clerks, and guards to let them alone, did not sleep in the peace which romantic poets ascribe to them; perhaps such poets have never been poor.

he fell ill with a disease that only the grave can cure

The people do not complain because they have no choice; they do not move because they are in a stupor; and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen how their hearts bleed. But some day you will see and hear!

She wanted to pray, but who prays in the hour of despair? Prayers are said in hope; otherwise the invocation to God becomes a reproach. So it was that in her heart she cried out and complained that this one man had been singled out to be cut off from the love of others, and asked why he was not denied sun and air and the sight of the skis, when one could live without these, but not without love.

o arráncame el corazón, o ámame, porque te adoro.

Mira aquí tus plantas, pues, todo el altivo rigor de este corazón traidor que rendirse no creía, adorando, vida mía, la esclavitud de tu amor.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

The alchemy of time transforms everything into comedy. Everything. Even crucifixion.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

The ill are damped with pain and anguish at the sight of all that is laudable, lovely, or happy.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

ROM 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation

Psalm 22:14-15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Two days she watched them, seeing them refuse all food or comfort and seeking each other as blind men seek, wretched apart and together more wretched still, for then they trembled each for the first avowal.

Apart the lovers could neither live nor die, for it was life and death together..

It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before the revolution. So was Anna Akhmatova, so was Marina Tsvetaeva. They would have become what they became even if none of the historical events that befell Russia in this century had taken place: because they were gifted . Basically, talent doesn't need history.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.