Suffering Quotes
Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?
The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.
Hope is a fruit of proven character.
No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.
Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.
It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.
Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.
Quite honestly, there are days when I don’t need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.
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[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.
Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.
You know, with talented people....They draw people to themselves, and without even trying to, they tear them to shreds.
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.
Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.
Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.
Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.
We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.
When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.
It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.
I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.
Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...
Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.
...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...
Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...
This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.
...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...
...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...
...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.
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 pain stops.
By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering.
He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.
