She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.

There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

It isn’t discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It’s this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain – and it’s known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn’t death that’s the disease.

In life; threats, misery and pain weigh the same.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

Do not be a “go along, get along” person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!

When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are...

The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes...

I live in a world in which 40 men control wealth equal to that of nearly 80 countries, where to maintain their hegemony, countless acts of mayhem and massacre must occur every day. This is...

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of...

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its...

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s not true. You’re always better off living.

When you’re suffering, you’re oversensitive to everything.

Let’s face it: suffering discredits goodness. I’m agnostic in practice though faith-based in theory. I used to pray but now know he’ll do what he darn well pleases when he darn well pleases. Will he...

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects,” I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does...

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Experiencing grief and pain is like falling off a cliff. Everything has been turned upside down, and we are no longer in control. As we fall, we see one and only one tree that is...

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful...

How many women are there … who because of their husbands’ harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On...

It’s not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

So it is with sorrow, each thinks his own present grief the most severe. For of this he judges by his own experience. He that is childless considers nothing so sad as to be without...

What is suffering? I’m not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and...

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,’ says Sister Ruth, ‘go straight ahead.

If there was a God, he’d guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I’d cut loose my pain, my longing.

We don’t like to hurt. And there is no worse pain for fallen people than facing an emptiness we cannot fill. To enter into pain seems rather foolish when we can run from it through...

it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn’t undo the harm he had wrought; it didn’t please...

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, “Darling, I care about your suffering,” a deep healing begins.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he...

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has...

It takes great courage to open one’s heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to...

All suffering comes bearing a gift. Every pain is a portal. You must look at the hand of your suffering to see the gift it offers and peer into your pain to see where it...

If love were human I would’ve set them on fire by now — a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I’d breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love’s destruction, its mortality filling...

The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how...

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it – and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness;...

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity...

All suffering has an end, David, if only you wait long enough. Sorrow has its life like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it’s dead and gone, someone’s left behind to...

— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.—Who knows it better?—Yet you believe?Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret....