One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Aldous HuxleyTags: friendship suffering huxley
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: kindness compassion empathy suffering understanding-others
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
Léon BloyTags: suffering
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
David DeidaTags: life love suffering living
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
C.S. LewisTags: experience reality suffering mourning grief others expectations personal-experience
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
C.S. LewisTags: love death suffering hurt grief injury
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing to put up a fight, was ill rewarded. For, while averting that revulsion which they found so unbearable, they also deprived themselves of those redeeming moments, frequent enough when all is told, when by conjuring up pictures of a reunion to be, they could forget about the plague. Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
Albert CamusTags: future pain hope suffering numbness shadows drifting
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: sadness sorrow suffering mourning grief
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LewisTags: suffering
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
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