#suffering

Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život. ↗

— Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar

#bosnian-war #childhood #childhood-suffering #life #war

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#pain #suffering #life

As long as one suffers one lives. ↗

— Graham Greene

#suffering #life

Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug. ↗

— Dash Shaw

#living #mothers #suffering #life

But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#life

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#history #struggle #suffering #life

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87 ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#life

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. ↗

— Jane Austen

#does #having #less #love #nothing

Love hurts because we think that's what love is. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#love #suffering #love

Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee Save Me, save only Me? All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms. But just that thou might'st seek it in my arms. All which thy child's mistake Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home; Rise, clasp My hand, and come! ↗

— Francis G. Thompson

#loss #suffering #love