It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated…

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Suffer” he commanded seductively. “With me…or because of me.

Suffering is like an echo – reflecting it only prolongs it.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself–even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.” – Tilopa

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and...

We rise up And we fall downOnly to rise again

A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid....

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering

There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in the months before her death, to be completely healed. Death is the price...

I don’t feel like I can change the world. I don’t even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God’s fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for ‘the bush was not consumed.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so – that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we...

Although you and I have crossed each other, we two are destined by the heavens to be together. There will come a day when the two of us will join together to do great things....

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Are you so dead inside you don’t feel the daily anguish, terror and deathly suffering of millions? What happened to you? You’ve changed.

If you don’t accept and respect your suffering, it isn’t going anywhere.

… everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there’re no jobs.

Should I, too, prefer the title of ‘non-Jewish Jew’? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde...

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Did you,” so he asked him at one time, “did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?”Vasudeva’s face was filled with a bright smile.”Yes, Siddhartha,” he spoke. “It is...

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

subvert” that brokenness.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Maybe he’s suffering from a case of jet lag. Is he suggesting that we be reduced to truant officers? It seems to me to be a plan obsessed with power and control.

A Brief for the DefenseSorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise...

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the...

Some people ask me, ‘Why do you do what you do with so much passion?’ So I tell them, I prefer to be a helping hand to others than to sit around and watch them...

I hope suffering don’t exist.

People think I’m crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: ‘Suffering is the sole...

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it’s true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of...

We didn’t let them do anything to us, Travanion,” Beatriss said fiercely, “They did it without out permission.

momentary.” They only last for a short time.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

There’s no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silently...

In suffering we find our truest selves.