Quotes About Suffering

Life is a wince-a-thon.

Jesus' co-suffering love is the best lens through which to consider God, or at least to reconsider ourselves.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

God's idea of ministry training is a broken vessel. His idea of spiritual preparation is suffering, which includes rejection.

The Lord has a unique way of preparing His servants for His work. It's one that involves transformation. And transformation always involves emptying, suffering, and loss. Humanity's way is to hand you a method. Divinity's way is to hand you a cross.

I have seen war…. I hate war.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Untold suffering seldom is.

Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell.

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

The power structure draws its validity and strength solely from the existence of the people's struggle. In practice it is the people who choose a power structure of their own free will and not the power structure that suffers the people. (139)

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Ignominy has always been the younger sister of misfortune.

Todas las noches me moría cuando oía los gritos ahogados de mamá al recibir los golpes paternos.

Comer carne de ganadería intensiva es comer humillación, angustia y dolor.

Dans leur ensemble, les humains ne veulent pas entendre parler des conditions dans lesquelles la viande est obtenue. Ils zappent la phase de l'élevage autant que celle de l'abattage. Quand ce n'est pas du déni, c'est au moins de l'évitement. Nul ne veut savoir la somme de souffrances qu'il a fallu pour produire ce fricandeau, ce boudin noir, cette escalope milanaise ou ce ris de veau. C'est comme s'ils arrivaient dans nos assiettes par une opération du Saint-Esprit.

Si el infierno es la Historia, el paraíso es la vida.

Charles Patterson resume en una frase que triunfa y escandaliza: "Auschwitz empieza cuando un hombre ve un matadero y dice: solo son animales".