The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...
Elie WieselNo worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing —
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
Tags: despair suffering grief depression consolation
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
Scott CairnsTags: life christianity spiritual suffering
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
Allan LokosTags: inspirational buddhism inspiration suffering health mindfulness
Experience is the byproduct of agony.
Joel T. McGrathTags: pain suffering contemplative
I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.
Stephen KingTags: evil suffering sins john-coffey
Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
Willa CatherTags: woman suffering pity virgin-mary
For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment.
Chaim PotokTags: art pain suffering jewish painting judaism paint jew torment asher-lev hasidic hasidic-judaism
Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.
Peter SingerTags: reason philosophy suffering emotion
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.
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