Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

Most of our suffering comes from avoidance.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one’s words much.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long ’till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother’s curse?

Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others,...

But the core businesses are still suffering. It’s a mixed bag.

It doesn’t matter who started it or what it’s really about…war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we’re not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion’s share...

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with, isn’t it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

i’m in love with every creature on earth.. i don’t want nobody to suffer, because i can feel the pain from all of them.. and i want to gave them love.. every creature on earth…

It was not sympathy in the ordinary sense which he [Adolf Hitler] felt for the disinherited. That would not have been sufficient. He not only suffered with them, he lived for them and devoted all...

If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights?

Yea ! by your works are ye justified–toil unrelieved ;Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ;Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known,...

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [….] Without cruelty there is no festival.

What is the purpose of my life? Why am I here?” the crisis has already begun. Conversion becomes possible the very moment a man ceases to blame God or life and begins to blame himself;...

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it’s as if I’m holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Y hay que ver, esos libros sobre el duelo son unamierda, todos iguales, una porquería total al cien por cien.

On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on “the tree.” That is the mildest camp punishment. They tie a man’s hands together behind his back,...

I don’t even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my...

Finally, it is wrong to say that “nothing” is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more basic to the identity of the institutional church than the preaching of the...

Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we’ve had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the...

Suffering is when we resist the moment.

Experience is the byproduct of agony.

Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.

Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.

‘Shoot the wounded… what we do to people who are the most vulnerable… we ‘shoot the wounded.’ As if they haven’t suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts.”...

To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I have to set an example, now more than ever. Facing death is the ultimate test of character. – Cmdr. William Riker

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant...

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children...

Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers.

Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others.

I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or...

If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat.

I almost gave my life long ago for a thingThat has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes—It is strange how often a heart must be brokenBefore the years can make it wise.

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie’s Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness Visible, William Styron”It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.

I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from it. And I know, too, that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest...

With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too … If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might...

Bei Abwesenheit großer Leiden quälen uns die kleinsten Unannehmlichkeiten.