#uf

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#suffering

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. ↗

— Anne Rice

#suffering

Warriors should suffer their pain silently. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#hunter #hurt #pain #stoicism #suffer

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist. ↗

— Noah Cicero

#pain #screaming #suffering #terrorism

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. ↗

— Jack London

#suffering #weak #weakness #london

Commit yourself to good conduct (adab) both inwardly and outwardly; for whenever one transgresses the bounds of conduct outwardly, he is punished outwardly, and whenver one transgresses the bounds of conduct inwardly, he is punished inwardly. ↗

— Aisha the daughter of Abu Uthman Said B. Ismail Al Hiri of Nishapur.

#sufism #women-in-islam #islam

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. ↗

— Al-Ghazali

#knowledge #sufism #wisdom #islam

Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#spike #cheating

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light. ↗

— Imam 'Abdallah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad

#religion #spirituality #sufism #religion

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering