“No matter the situation, do not give up hope of being saved.”
“Pain is not tragic. Pain is magic. Suffering is tragic. Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our own becoming. That is what I can and must avoid: missing my own evolution because I am too afraid to surrender to the process.”
Source: Untamed
“Living with long-term suffering in American culture feels like being off-key. Suffering quiets and slows, but our culture prefers a crescendo.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“All pain triggers a reminder, deeper than thought, buzzing through blood and bone, that we are fragile and finite.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“When pain of any kind makes us feel less ourselves and less capable of engaging in relationships, we experience it as suffering.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“The hardest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“To be born is to know suffering. To know pain. To know fear. To know deep yearning that can never be satisfied.”
Source: The Little Light
“Suffering whispers, shouts, and screams the story no one wants to remember: we are not in control, and we are all going to die.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.”
Source: The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise
“Once they’d even brought the minister of the Unitarian church, whom I’d never really liked at all. He was terribly nervous the whole time, and I could tell he thought I was crazy as a loon, because I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn’t believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
Source: the bell jar