SUFFERING QUOTES VII

quotations about suffering

Brothers, I see a meaning in this pain and suffering; I see God therein. The hour is sent to us for trial. Let us meet the test.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Jeremiah: a drama in nine scenes


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Tags: Haruki Murakami


A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

ADA LEVERSON

Bird of Paradise

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When I am pained, I find the old theory of the uselessness of communicating the circumstances of it, singularly untenable.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1, 1845

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The suffering's here
The wait is gone
The streets are filled
With a hollow song
Got a new death
It lurks outside
Follows me home

DANZIG

"End of Time"


Nothing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.
That heart brings suffering.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Anguttara Nikaya

Tags: Buddha


Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Suttree

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The wound is the place where light enters you.

RUMI

attributed, Wild Essence: Return to the Peace & Freedom of Your Inner Wilderness


Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

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This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world of anyone is to reach God.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil

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