#suffering

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ↗

— Rumi

#healing #scars #suffering #broken

I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#suffering #games

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. ↗

— John le Carré

#suffering #journalist

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

— Elie Wiesel

#suffering #holocaust

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

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#suffering #love

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering. ↗

— Albert Camus

#the-plague #doctor-who

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror. ↗

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

#suffering #dreams

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. ↗

— Tony Benn

#galloping #obsolescence #suffering #today