The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can’t feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.

cogito” nell’ordine del pensiero: è la prima evidenza. Ma questa evidenza trae l’individuo dalla sua solitudine. È un luogo comune che fonda su tutti gli uomini il proprio valore. Mi rivolto, dunque siamo.

According to Hugh Thomas, author of ‘A History of the World’, the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also...

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been–for a moment’s relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been...

Eons of suffering, brutality and struggle have paved the way through the corridors of time to create this moment, where you exist as an exalted expression of life.

Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner… which he loved but also despised…. He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him...

I’d realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a promise.

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her.

I might show it to you, but you’d never see it. The privilege isn’t given to every one; it’s not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You...

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

She reminded him of (…) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy...

Well, hope for your thrilling career – but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you – then someone...

Ar fi putut să scrie despre unii adolescenți, ființe ce suferă mai mult dec t oricine pe această lume neîndurătoare și care ar trebuie să se bucure de mai multe drepturi dec t toți oamenii,...

Funny how much we all suffer trying to spare others a bit of pain.

On feeling guilty about lack of ‘productivity’:”In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one’s work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily...

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

People are really suffering these days. There’s a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not...

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

After a brief period of recovery from the financial crises (of 1997-1998), the Asian region is suffering from a mild relapse,

My God, my God, why hast thouforsaken me?” [The answer?] For me — for me.

Esti singur in vartejul suferintei tale si daca vrei sa iesi trebuie sa tragi aer in piept si sa te scufunzi pana se sfarseste. Mai degraba iubeste-o pana cand iubirea ti se face apa si...

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It’s not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they’re in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness – only misery.

Suffering teaches joy.

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on...

There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them…I will not stand to be looked at by anybody,...

There’s nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you’ve suffered.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed.””That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn...

My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent...

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

Anticipating death and calling it gain, Christians are evangelists of the grotesque. The very hope of the Gospel rests directly upon our ability to imagine a world in which suffering serves as the soil from...

Good. Bad. The cup holds both.

People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all world suffering you perceive is a mirror to your own psychological self-abuse, gender imbalance, prejudice, poverty,...

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever since I stopped having to go hungry, I literally eat life...

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.