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“One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ ...”
“Those who are in pain most of the worlds populations at any given moment do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot...”
“I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.”
“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”
“Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)”
“We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.”
“Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.”
“It is our contemporary cultures tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffer...”
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the army. After a brief period of training at a base in Wzburg, I arrived at the fro...”
“There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.”
“All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don't suffer, but tha...”
“But there is no value to suffering!”
“Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.”
“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.”
“Suffering, my child?...Suffering is the divine trigger you can press..for you to accomplish your dreams...”
“Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.”
“If one suffers from the pain and the hardship, its friends feel empathy and sadness too. Whereas, its opponents celebrate and enjoy that.”
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world... They live as we all should liveundisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet... Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they ar...”
“In fact, the conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another. Nay, from this point of view, we might well c...”
“You have seen so much purposeless suffering that at least being killed for a reason can be borne?”
