Quotes About Suffering

Ella debía pasar dolorosamente, con su corazón destrozado, a través de las fronteras del tiempo; debía lavar sus heridas en alguna fuene del Paraíso, y olvidar su pena en la luz de la inmortalidad; ¡y allí estaría a salvo!

I have wrenched and torn an idea out of my miserable brain, or rather, the fragment of an idea, like a tooth ill-drawn and leaving the roots to torture me.

Could it be true? She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! — these were her realities, — all else had vanished!

Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor

For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that had first launched them on this quest.

El desastre del Essex no es un relato de aventuras. Es una tragedia que además resulta ser una de las historias verdaderas más grandes que jamás se hayan contado.

As Smith later wrote, much of the suffering that lay ahead for the Pilgrims could easily have been avoided if they had seen fit to pay for his services or, at the very least, consult his map. "[S]uch humorists [i.e., fanatics] will never believe…," he wrote, "till they be beaten with their own rod.

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure.

They say time heals. No, it just wears away pain. It grinds everything to dust.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand.

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

but how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear. -Sonia

The pain of knowing is killing me more than killing me would kill me, so I jump just to end it.

He does not see . . . because his eyes are shut too tightly to know anything beyond his own anguish.

My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.

Being made to suffer pain frees us to feel the joy of being human.

I don't think God have us this anymore than he gives little kids cancer or makes poor people lottery winners.... if anything, he gives us courage to deal.

I still don't know much about art, but I do know that there are places inside of us?palaces of glorious light and caverns of unknowable darkness. Magical places filled with brilliant, unimaginable colors that we suffer to bring forth.

Pain is weakness leaving the body." We

Ból to znak, ?e sÅ'abo?? opuszcza ciaÅ'o.

His broken body wanted to hurt, but it was forbidden to. He remembered thinking, in his opiate-induced delirium, how sad it must be for a body to want something so badly and to be completely denied.