Quotes About Suffering

It was then that stories of the dreaming disease began to circulate more widely. We heard from our customers of a girl who smelled of cooking oil, who remembered all the wars ever fought. She could recall and recount every death, every rape, every wound, every moment of suffering that had ever been inflicted by a member of her ancestral lineage. The only place she could find relief from this barrage of collective memory was in water.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?

Sometimes the innocent suffer with the guilty. They can get caught in the backwash.

That's what the backside of hardship and suffering does. It teaches us perspective. It takes the fear out of the things that terrify others. It

He chose to be with them in their trials rather than delivering them from their trials.

Jesus is pictured as warning his followers that they will be hated by all "because of my name" (Mark 13:13) and will suffer persecution "on my account" (Matt 5:11). First Peter 3:13-16 urges believers to be unafraid of suffering for their faith, to "reverence Christ as Lord" and

But I neglected to tell him about the Age of Shit. I didn't tell him about the shape of the age to come, which is becoming clearer and clearer to him. War will be all, devouring all, W. says. Human beings will be like rats, like vermin. And the skies will burn, W. says. He can see them burning.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

In real life, you eat the cinnamon toast, even if your heart is burning.

You could not choose where your heart went. You could only suffer the consequences.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

Donde quiera que estés, Belicia, deseo que ya no sufras ni llores nunca más. Donde quiera que estés, amiga mía... hermana... deseo que encuentres la felicidad que mereces.

Estás enamorada - dijo Santiago. - No es verdad. - Claro que sí. Y sufres porque él piensa en otra persona. Créeme; sé de qué estoy hablando. - ¿De verdad? - replicó ella, irritada -. Lo dudo. No te tomas nada en serio. ¿Cómo vas a saber lo que es el amor? Se volvió para marcharse, pero Santiago la retuvo por el brazo y la miró a los ojos. - Sé de qué estoy hablando - repitió. Y Miriam lo comprendió.

Arrancar su corazón de su pecho y exprimirlo hasta las última gota... igual que hemos hecho con todos los demás.

No tienes la menor idea de lo que ha significado para mí recoger todos los pedazos de mis sueños rotos. Y nunca lo entenderás. Si me hubieses matado anoche, no me habrías hecho más daño del que me has hecho ya.

Buscar sombra siempre es doloroso. Pero permanecer ciegos es más doloroso aún.

All I see, he thought, is a dead body breathing.

With arms shrunken to little more than bone and yellowed skin, the castaways waved and shouted

McMullen came out of Japan racked by nightmares and so nervous that he was barely able to speak cogently. When he told his story to his family, his father accused him of lying and forbade him to speak of the war. Shattered and deeply depressed, McMullen couldn't eat, and his weight plunged back down to ninety pounds. He went to a veterans' hospital, but the doctors simply gave him B12 shots.

Zamperini looked toward his crewmates. They were too weak

On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil leared a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.