Quotes About Suffering

It hurts," Nellie said. "I know," Reagan said. "No pain, no gain." "Do you think they made that expression up for bullet wounds ?

We are each our own devil, and we make the world our hell. OSCAR WILDE

The Cruciatus Curse, which first appeared in the fourth Harry Potter novel, derives squarely from this source. In magical parlance, "crosses" are life's challenges and trials. Someone suffering from a "crossed condition" exists under a dark cloud. Uncrossing spells remove these crosses. Cross candles are burned to eliminate life's hardships.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you and keep you from suffering? Valentine turned her eyes away from him, unable to face the empty answer in his face but not wanting to stop saying what she had thought for so long. "I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most-emptiness. A person full of life is never mysterious, on the contrary.

Survivors do not want their injuries to be trivialized or ridiculed, and they do not want to be blamed for them. They do not want to be dismissed as overly emotional or told to "get over it." They want their communities to recognize and respect their suffering and to acknowledge the seriousness of the harm they have endured.

the suffering of traumatized people is a matter not only of individual psychology but also, always, of social justice.

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet...

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

As the Buddha says, "Suffering comes from both ignorance and denial." One

think His forgiveness is sometimes more painful than to be beaten and tortured.

I agree with New Age philosophy that everything happens for a reason. But not always for a good reason. A tornado is not especially interested in your self-actualization.

What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time.

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

Sein halbes Leben hatte Gerhard an dem Widerspruch zwischen Denken und Handeln gelitten. Er hatte sich als Intellektueller gefühlt und versucht, darin eine Auszeichnung zu sehen, die für andauerndes Scheitern entschädigte. Insgeheim war ihm schon lange klar gewesen, dass der Satz "Der Klügere gibt nach" eine Falle darstellte und dass es sich beim Zusatz "bis er der Dumme ist" nicht um einen Witz, sondern um eine logische Konsequenz handelte.

Look around us in this world, how it suffers!

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Hope could be a cruel bitch

Yet one long-term resident of Peru, a Belgian priest, disagreed: 'what such terrible conditions generated, usually and spontaneously, in the people that suffered them was not rebelliousness, but rather fatalism, passivity, or religious resignation…the explosions of violence could only be understood if given social conditions came together with an ideology that deliberately and consciously proposed exercising violence as a response'.2

porque habéis dejado de ser David, porque continuáis estando solos, porque vuestro sufrimientos del pasado no pueden borrar el nuestro. Pero sobre todo, porque ya habéis perdido el alma.

Nadie puede salir indemne de tanto sufrimiento. —La cuestión es aprender a vivir con ello-

La culpa no es de quien dispara la bala o coloca el explosivo, la culpa es de quien ha provocado la maldita guerra, de quien no va al frente pero envía los hombres a morir.