179 quotes found
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts u...”
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before”
“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena”
“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”
“Suffering how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
“Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.”
“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and ...”
“That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To t...”
“Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.”
“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”
“Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.”
“I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.”
“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 understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.”
“...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Bu...”
“Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.”
“Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.”
“An Odonians goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially its merely destructive.”
“Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.”
“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them ...”
