Quotes About Suffering

Each wound has its own time for healing...The wounds of the heart are much deeper than those of the flesh.

Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end.

Though we all ''perform'' for others to some extent, the mask slips easily for those who have sufferd early neglect.

A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom.

Man's Search for Meaning has gone on to sell over twelve million copies. Frankl's message was that even in the face of unimaginable bleakness, humans can find hope. "You do not have to suffer to learn, but if you don't learn from suffering . . . then your life becomes truly meaningless." The key, he said, is to imagine a better time, to have a reason to live. He quotes Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

Even after he had met Maria, life hadn't been much about God, but only about Maria herself and kissing her under the brim of her wide white hat; but now that she lay there dying because she hadn't wanted to go back to Russia, the world was all about God and he didn't think Schwester Kasimira and the nuns silly any longer.

There was so much to do...so many things that Christ had called me to do. It would take more pain, more loneliness. Maybe death. Why was it so hard? Why? Then I saw Jesus. He was struggling up a hill with a great burden. His face was lined with grief, His back bent.

All who believe and obey the glorious gospel of God, all who are true and faithful and overcome the world, all who suffer for Christ and his word, all who are chastened and scourged in the Cause of him whose we are—all shall become as their Maker and sit with him on his throne and reign with him forever in everlasting glory.

We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.

You could tell that the plant life here wasn't at all used to the kindness of rain. The plants weren't a bit better than humanity, really—just another ugly, nasty, acquisitive species, born to suffer, and expecting little.

Gene replacement therapy--they tell me it really hurts. It always hurts... It all hurts. Everything hurts. For as long as you can still feel it.

The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body of a half-wit, somebody was growing old, although he had not lived; somebody was maturing to a death that had no meaning at all.

When we experience difficulty, we are to understand that it is, at least in part, God's process of making us what he wants us to be.

The afflictions we experience do not evidence the absence of divine love, because God uses even this pain for higher purposes in our behalf. The proof is in the cross itself.

What a difference it makes in my life and yours when we believe that the trials as well as the accomplishments, the difficulties as well as the joys, are not simply the products of brute forces in the universe but actually are all part of God's eternal plan for his glory and our good. Do we have any assurance that such astounding truths do apply to us? Yes.

I know after all the awful places you've had to go, it's hard to imagine how good heaven can be, but I've seen it, and no words can describe it...It's worth it all. We've both lost a parent, we've been beaten and bruised, and we've done through hell together. I even died. And I can tell you...giving up everything to serve God is worth it all.

His head was ringing like a goddamn church bell on a Sunday, only instead of calling the devout to worship it was signaling his total and obvious eternal damnation.

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing, Does murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about, In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing, And tell how little our large veins should bleed, Would we but yield them to they bitter need.

Before I spoke, the general talk was drifting to women's emancipation, birth control in the Third World, and how the Third World women were suffering. I don't know why I hated people talking about us like that......... So I got up and shocked all those ladies, telling them to mind their own business and leave us Third World women alone. One could have heard a pin drop. I thought at one time I would be thrown out. But I was not.