#erin

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well. ↗

— William Nicholson

#god #pain #suffering #dreams

Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you. ↗

— Louise Rennison

#tallulah-casey #wuthering-heights #dreams

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#flowering #suicide #trees #gay

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#healing #suffering #healing

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#self #self-conciousness #suffering #alcohol

he who will not economize will have to agonize ↗

— Confucius

#ignorance #knowledge #suffering #wisdom #economics

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#suffering #holocaust

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#could #give #hurt #knowing #materialized

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#spirit #suffering #healing

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#pain #suffering #wounds #healing