“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”
“Neither my acts have wiped the woes of
any sufferer out, nor have I cured
pains of wounded ones;
with the faith pompous mercenary,
O' Glorious! O 'Lord Almighty!
how can I bow my head in your adulation?”
Source: मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”
Source: Mansfield Park
“But why all these questions?
Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.
Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.”
Source: The Zahir
“If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.”
Source: The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
“That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Bullshit takes no genius,
even fool senses its' foul.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“The afflicted don’t need comforting, they need what the comfortable have always had.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This