Quotes About Suffering

Cuando los animales de carne van, con paso lento por el pasillo que los conduce a su espantoso destino, con el miedo en las entrañas, el pelo erizado y el culo lleno de mierda, notamos más que nunca el parentesco y el parecido que tienen con nosotros. Miran la muerte con los mismos ojos.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Hate born from too many tears and too little Love

We want a just-my-size God, fluffy and approachable, without all those picky commandments. But once we get him down to teddy-bear size we find that he is powerless. He is not able to ease our suffering or comprehend our dark confusions; he does not have strength equal to our grief. A reduced God is no God at all.

Undoubtedly, he suffered on the Cross, but icons don't depict him in agony. They show him as our rescuer, the great hero of our salvation story.

What to know about pain is how little we deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead face and find my living eyes. In his case, the life and death were reversed, and the flesh of his face was living ground, while his eyes were little monuments to lifelessness buried therein.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

It is only by the sharp thorn of his [Christ's] suffering that the poisonous thorn of our sin is drawn.

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France.... And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliation.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Que todo termina en un instante Planatera doloroso

Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.

Amurallar el propio sufrimiento es arriesgarse a que te devore desde el interior.

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best.

Yo sufrí dos accidentes graves en mi vida: uno es del tranvía, el otro es Diego. Diego fue el peor de todos

Cerul înstelat este ce cel mai sincer prieten din via??; este mereu acolo, î?i d? întotdeauna pace, î?i aminte?te mereu c? nelini?tea ta, îndoiala ta, durerile tale sunt nimicuri trec?toare. Universul este ?i va r?mâne de neclintit. Când tragem linie, opiniile noastre, luptele noastre, suferin?ele noastre nu sunt a?a de importante ?i de unice.

Gott ist] gerecht, Hofdichter. Sonst wäre die Welt keine Hölle.

Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe, diese drei, wie es so schön im Korinther dreizehn heißt. Aber die Hoffnung ist die zäheste unter ihnen, das steht bei mir, dem Juden Gulliver, mit roten Mahlen in mein Fleisch gezeichnet.

World history is tragic.