Quotes About Suffering

I live a life That burns a hole through life, that leaves a scar for life, That makes me weep for another life. Define life.

But Benedict wished to suffer the world's wrongs rather than its praises, and to be worn out by labors for God rather than flattered by worldly praise. So he quietly slipped away...

So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.

They send you to places where bombs explode like jack-in-the-boxes, blowing your friends to pieces before your eyes. Then they punish you when you can't stop thinking about it.

When bad things happened to good people, or when innocent animals experienced human cruelty, it shook Steve to the core. His strong feelings demanded deep spiritual answers, and he searched for them all his life.

Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

People associated their emperor with a scale of horror fully comparable with Auschwitz – and perhaps worse. They.,were prepared to believe that living men and women nailed to posts,'•soaked in oil and set on fire were used to light a party, because the public enjoyment of torture was part of the fabric of their state. Death screams were part of the fun.

It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.

You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

hard times. He said: "Keep your eyes on the resurrection, and you can endure the cross." The cross is not a burden; it's the call of God on our lives.

Several years ago the Lord said something to me that has helped me during hard times. He said: "Keep your eyes on the resurrection, and you can endure the cross.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?

A big seizure just kind of grabs the inside of your skull and squeezes. It feels as if it's twisting and turning your brain all up and down and inside out. Have you ever heard a washing machine suddenly flip into that bang-bang-bang sound when it gets out of balance, or a chain saw when the chain breaks and gets caught up in the gears, or an animal like a cat, screeching in pain? Those are what seizures felt like when I was little.

You don't have to die to go to hell.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

My heart aches for my people. I don't understand why God gives more power to some and less to others.

Sur son trône d'airain le Destin qui s'en raille Imbibe leur éponge avec du fiel amer, Et la Nécessité les tord dans sa tenaille.

La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para expresarla, mientras el vocabulario de los sufrimientos morales y físicos llena innumerables columnas en los diccionarios de todas las lenguas.

By humiliation alone can Saints be made.