Quotes About Suffering

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we've already got them in Hell.

Woyzeck Yes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder.

Marie - Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim iÅŸte ben! B?çaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Dünya! Herkesin can? cehenneme, erkek, diÅŸi!

Unsereins ist doch einmal unselig in der und der andern Welt, ich glaub´ wenn wir in Himmel kämen, so müssten wir donnern helfen.

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?

Wash me wholly in the waters Of the sacred springs of pain; Suffering be all my worship, Suffering be all my gain.

I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.

In ein altes Stammbuch Immer wieder kehrst du Melancholie, O Sanftmut der einsamen Seele. Zu Ende glüht ein goldener Tag. Demutsvoll beugt sich dem Schmerz der Geduldige Tönend von Wohllaut und weichem Wahnsinn. Siehe! es dämmert schon. Wieder kehrt die Nacht und klagt ein Sterbliches Und es leidet ein anderes mit. Schaudernd unter herbstlichen Sternen Neigt sich jährlich tiefer das Haupt.

Months of torment, relieved at the end by a single minute of good cheer. What more could anyone want?

When any of us experiences a loss, there comes a time in the grief process when we shake our fists skyward and yell, Why? It is the wrong question. The question we need to ask is "What is the journey and what is the growth that I must accomplish by suffering the loss of someone or something so meaningful to me?" It is the first step in the long and winding road that is to be our life's spiritual journey

How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these ads?

I hated the garb, I hated the surroundings—the big hospital at the back, and that reek of cruelty, drunkenness, and filth, the cattle-market—where every other building was either a slaughter-house, a gin-palace, or a pawnbroker's shop, more than all I hated the gloomy jail opposite, where they sometimes hanged a man in public on a Monday morning.

The eschatological glory is inseparably related to the sufferings of Christ (1:11).

Jesus' rebuff of Satan meant in effect that he would not forsake the role of the Servant of God. "Jesus is the Son of God not as a miracle-worker, but in the obedient fulfillment of his task — precisely his task of suffering."19

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

They'll take everything, even your tears.