Quotes About Suffering

I suffered like this ever since I was born. I was ignored by everyone, forgotten, told I was not needed... I lived like the bugs underneath a rock... Know! Know my pain!

Tapi, tugas seorang detektif bukan hanya itu. Siapa pun yang menderita karena sebuah kasus, dia juga termasuk korban. Mencari cara untuk menyelamatkan korban seperti itu juga termasuk tugas detektif.

Until the Second Coming, sin will remain a part of earthly existence. And as long as there is sin, there will be suffering and pain. But suffering by persecution is not a sine qua non of the church. If it is, there are few if any true churches in North America today.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231)

Everyone - rich or poor, black or white, educated or not - is in emotional turmoil, in some sort of pain. (51)

Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)

The few other shoppers were women like herself. Widows, perhaps, but grandmothers surely, out hunting for birthday gifts or bargains to store away for next winter. They shuffled in a daze from bin to bin, and Margaret read in every face some suffering or disappointment, their hopes and dreams marked down, 40 percent off.

Lidice, along with thousands of other villages, was switched off like a light.

Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Death was like that, casual with its cruelty.

In fact, we often prefer predictable, obvious suffering to suffering that may or may not happen at any given time. And

If suffering is ubiquitous in life, the withdrawal from and avoidance of suffering is accordingly the withdrawal from and avoidance of life. You

The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?

In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

When suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But he doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves. Instead, he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project-a mosaic that tells the story of redemption.

You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won't come back no more. Ain't no sufferin' in this world worse than that; and that's the blue we call 'I Had It But It's All Gone Now.

The defining element of hell was eternal conscious suffering. Here

We're here now, we have the means to stop the suffering and therefore the duty to act.