#suffering

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. ↗

— John Milton

#integrity #patience #suffering #wisdom #integrity

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. ↗

— Rumi

#depression #healing #pain #recovery #sadness

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

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

— Marcel Proust

#healing #suffering #healing

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

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hurting #prayer #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sadness

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