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  • Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.

    "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.
  • I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

    Pain   Mistake   Thinking  
  • He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where suffering and pain do not exist, where we give praises for our joy and happiness, where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

    Dream   Pain   Ocean  
  • If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  • Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don't understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.

    Pain   Thinking   Animal  
  • Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

    Country   Children   Pain  
    Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”
  • Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

    Pain   Evil   Suffering  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.116, Simon and Schuster
  • Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

    Pain   Men   Evil  
  • Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  • Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.

  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

    Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293
  • When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

    Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

    Pain   Self   Blood  
  • The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  • O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the prize. Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.

    Pain   Islamic   Loss  
  • The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

    Running   Hurt   Pain  
  • Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

    "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.
  • Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

    Laughter   Pain   Heart  
    Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing
  • Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

  • Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

    "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.
  • Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

    "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.
  • The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

    Pain   Struggle   Men  
    Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing
  • No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

    Life   Christian   Pain  
  • So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

    Pain   Long   Generosity  
    Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.159, Matthew Gordon
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