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“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.”

People Years Believe Mean Has Beens Matter Pain I Believe Religious Practice Identity Proud Be Proud Torment Observance

Author:Golda Meir

“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'”

“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”

Long Stills Ends Pain Speak Hell Fire Habit Terrible Sorrow Overcoming Weight Variety This Life Flames Intensity Torment Sinking

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.”

Feels Wells Light Pain Suffering Natural Forget Conditions Products Civilization Wounds Feds Pessimism Savages Torment Discomfort Joyous

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”

Pain Sound Attention Music Streets Endless Sat Italian Opera Sheer Anguish Torment Obliged Crowded Solace Barren Inexplicable Crowded Streets

Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.”

Knows May Facts Reality Able Pain Suffering Our Lives Bears Add Torment Pain Suffering

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

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Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.”

Heart Eye Pain Black Knowing Sadness Sad Torment Disdain Ruth

Book:Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems

Source: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems

“They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.”

Soul Pain Past Healing Laughed Expecting Torment Scorn Past Life Resigned Alacrity

Author:Josephus

“Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.”

Knows Men Pain Purpose Revenge Torment Thyself Adversaries

Author:Akhenaton

“Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.”

May Said Soul Ends Whole Moments Body Eye Age Pain Suffering Millions Hell Alive Possibility Smart Ears Extremes Mythology Intense Instant Torment Trembling Duration Fainting Intermission

Author:John Wesley