Quotes About Suffering

You ok?" he said. No, I'm not. I'm lonely and exhausted and no kind of mother and on top of all that migrained with fucking idiotic desire. "I'm fine," I said, and opened the passenger door.

We're hanging around waiting for this to not seem so painful when the fact is it's only going to get more painful the longer we hang around.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of pain and the din of...if only, hell is two things: the absence of God and the presence of time. Infinite variations on that theme. Doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well, trust me.

Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

Whenever you stand firmly in the midst of a hardship, holding and expressing the love that you are, you will witness illusions falling away. Through being the love that you are, you are empowered to transcend your sufferings.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

his memory flooded with pain for all the hurts and wrongs that had been done in the name of God. As always, he would pray for forgiveness and the redemption of that pain.

the way we ignore the suffering of others and close our ears to their cries of pain. The way we disrespect our fellow man and are selfish for our own needs. Much of human suffering is avoidable. But a righteous path has a high price, and many are not prepared to pay that price.

He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else.

Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering.

Although some Jews "traveled by donkey," the Jews of Spain, for the most part, walked out of their country. These refugees were the "scholars, the sons and daughters of families who had served their monarchs . . . shoemakers, tanners, butchers, the old, the pregnant, [and] the young."6

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.

The nail is a friend of wood even if the nail makes wood suffer. Because the nail gives wood purpose.

The world suffers a lot because of false truths.

Mas tinha mesmo de ser assim, que aquilo que perfa a felicidade do homem também seja a fonte de sua miséria?

Voglio vedere chi può superarmi nel talento di amare. In verità è un talento pieno di dolore, di sofferenza, di lacrime; ma mi è così congeniale, così adatto, che difficilmente vi rinuncerò mai.

Charlotte'?n da çok keyif ald??? ve kitaplar üzerine yapt?klar? uzun sohbetler Werther'in yak?c? a?k?n? beslemekte ve ac?lar?na ac? katmaktad?r.

And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion

Czym?e jest nasze ?ycie? Dolin?, w której zamieszka?a gorycz. Czym jest ?wiat? Nieczu?ym t?umem ludzi.