Quotes About Suffering

É mais duro ver outro sofrer do que suportarmos nós o sofrimento.

How strange, how compelling a pain; to cause injury to a loved one.

It involved Melisande, and the razor-sharp blades they call flechettes, and a good deal of me screaming ... I have dreams about it still, and Elua help me, some of them are exquisite.

Amid the horrors of war, the poets seldom saw fit to mention the deadly tedium.

C'è forse da stupirsi che io sia diventata quella che sono? Delaunay sostiene che fosse da sempre il mio destino... Forse ha ragione ma c'è una cosa che so con certezza: quando l'Amore mi ha scacciata, è stata la Crudeltà ad avere pietà di me.

Il dolore riscatta tutto: rappresenta la consapevolezza della vita e, al tempo stesso, un monito di morte.

Il est étrange que je meure de l'utérus, moi qui n'ai jamais eu de règles et qui n'ai pas connu les hommes.

Me parecía que ese dolor nunca se calmaría, que había tomado posesión de mí de una vez por todas, que me impediría definitivamente consagrarme a algo que no fuera ese dolor, y lo aceptaba.

What kind of a country are we livin' in, eh? Where there's people feelin' pain in their bellies where food should be, and widows left wantin'—and little children dyin' for need of the hospital.

has wounded me. Maisie knew the abyss; she knew what it was

I quite understand how we are driven to lead statistical lives, but I repeat that it is the duty of art to make us imagine the particular; to make us understand that the rights of one human being are not a fraction of the rights of more than one, and at the same time that in any situation of collective evil, the suffering is felt by no more than one person; only one feels the bitter agony of injustice, only one dies

But then we remembered. What did time matter when one was on an endless voyage?... And so we resigned ourselves and cultivated the virtue of patience. Only then did I notice that my back had begun hurting again.

Suffering is not caused by forces outside of us but by a faulty and limited perception of life and of who we are. Our basic misperception gives rise to endless cravings for sense satisfaction. Since everything in the universe is constantly changing, nothing in Nature is capable of bringing lasting fulfillment.

Porque quererse es un castigo y es un abismo vivir juntos.

Una nación de gente cegada por la ira, una raza de bestias feroces indiferentes al sufrimiento humano. La gente vivía para las venganzas y los ajustes de cuentas. Lo que se buscaba no era el final del sufrimiento sino su continuación.

I would not have thought," he wrote to Mästlin, "that it could be so sweet, in union with my brothers, to suffer injury for religion, to abandon house, fields, friends, and nation. If real martyrdom is like this, to lay down one's life, our exultation is so much the greater, the greater the loss, and it is an easy matter to die for faith."23

James A. Connor

The English could bring into this tight area four hundred and forty-eight thousand soldiers, but they could not find space in their ships for the extra medicines and food needed to save emaciated women and children. They could import a hundred thousand horses for their cavalry, but not three cows for their concentration camps. Guns bigger than houses they could haul in, but no hospital equipment. It was insane; it was horrifying...

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.