Quotes About Suffering

Was it still a miracle if someone had to suffer?

An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A

Heartbreak is an agonizing disease that you're delighted to have

Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers.

Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers. At

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon

Nijedan dan, nijedan sat, nijedan minut nije prošao a da ga nije razdirala želja da je vidi, da joj pri?a, da je dodiruje. Žudeo je da se nasla?uje gledaju?i je, da napoji svoja se?anja, tako da posle, kad više ne bude s njom, može u mislima da je dodirne i oseti. (...) Ali ljubav uvek ra?a patnju. (...) Može li to potrajati? Ne smemo gubiti ni trenutka, pomislio je.

But war only ends for those who have not been in one.

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering.

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once

His life was merely a slow-moving tragedy, an act of steady dying conducted before everyone's eyes.

It may well be that all suffering, even the prickles in the canefields, are part of the glory of man

After she'd eaten her custard I took her head in my lap, and she talked to me of the balance of nature and the planets, the permanence of the sky and the stars, and of suffering, which after all is only another way of existing.

Meanwhile the others continued the human line, wept, slaved, looked at a rosy sky and laughed.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.