Quotes About Suffering

Hip Hop is GOD's response to our suffering and this gospel celebrates that response and the personal character that caused such divine responses to occur.

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

In a study funded by IBM in 2011, Mexico City was considered the major city with the world's worst traffic, as judged by drivers' level of suffering, stress and loss of time, all consequences of speed bumps.

Menschen haben immer Menschen gequält, heute sieht das nur anders aus.

Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)

What you do not suffer for, you can never truly value.

Yo también sufría, pero mi dolor no era más que un vano intento de experimentar el suyo.

Ahora estas sufriendo por ella. Pero ella esta muerta y ya no padecera mas. Y tu sufres en vez de ella. En su lugar. Y, haciendolo, ¿no estas empezando a vivir por ella?

After Kelsey had been taken, she'd quickly learned that people had a finite tolerance for the suffering of others. Empathy went only so far before their personal comfort levels maxed out, and they started backing away from displays of grief.

God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos)

when I say sorrow, it does not mean that we celebrate suffering as if it is something to cherish and pursue. Rather, to the extent that suffering is unavoidable, accept it as a gift from Heaven. Then it will have a therapeutic impact on your heart. Redefine it in your mind as an opportunity for spiritual growth. Because that's what it is in reality. Whether people realize it or not, we live in a world of ongoing askesis.

because he came here on the wrong day, because he was born in the wrong time, because he had been born, it was all wrong from the very beginning, he should have known, should have sensed, that today was not the day to begin anything, nor was tomorrow, there were no days before him now, as there had never even been any, just as there was not and never would be a day...

For minutes on end he could not tell whether he was really hearing howls of pain, or whether it was simply that his years of long, exhausting work had rendered him incapable of distinguishing between the general noise and ancient prehistoric screams that were somehow preserved in time and now were being raised by the rain, like dust.

Halics's whole body felt as though it had lost definition and, as for his coat, it had lost whatever resistance to water it once had nor could it protect him from the roaring cataract of fate, or, as he tended to say, "the rain of death in the heart," a rain that beat, day and night, against both his withered heart and defenseless organs.

They're waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

Not until each loom is silent, And the shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the pattern And explain the reason why The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver For the pattern which He planned.

everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering or He will give you His unwavering strength that you may bear it. Be at peace, then, and set aside all anxious thoughts and worries. Francis de Sales

God has made me as bread for His chosen ones, and if it is necessary for me to "be ground" in the teeth of lions in order to feed His children, then blessed be the name of the Lord. Ignatius

Should we think that it pleases His loving heart To cause us a moment's pain? Not so! for He saw through the present cross The joy of eternal gain. So He waited there with a watchful eye, With a love that is strong and sure, And His gold did not suffer a bit more heat, Than was needed to make it pure.

Christians with the most spiritual depth are generally those who have been taken through the most intense and deeply anguishing fires of the soul. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if He leads you through the desert or through a furnace of pain.

Sorrow reveals unknown depths of the soul, and unknown capacities for suffering and service.

The sufferings of life are God's winds. Sometimes they blow against us and are very strong. They are His hurricanes, taking our lives to higher levels, toward His heavens.