„If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?“

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— Janet Fitch, buch White Oleander

Quelle: White Oleander

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American writer 1955

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— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Quelle: Magic Strikes

„My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.“

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— Emil M. Cioran, buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

„without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.“

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— Janet Fitch, buch White Oleander

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„I could not suffer them blowing me to pieces in my own native land and they knew Fitzpatrick wronged us and why not make it public and convict him but no they would rather riddle poor unfortunate creoles.“

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— Ned Kelly Australian bushranger 1855 - 1880

Jerilderie Letter (1879)

„I could bear to suffer… so many have suffered. But why must it be like this? I have not deserved it. I have been true in friendship; I have faithfully nursed others in sickness… Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy?“

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— Willa Cather, buch My Mortal Enemy

Part II, Ch. 5
My Mortal Enemy (1926)

„I'm boasting of my… skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.“

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— Cassandra Clare, buch Clockwork Angel

Quelle: Clockwork Angel

„We now prefer the fantasy…We find comfort in the lies. I was the victim of that for so long. I imbibed everything. It led to a place where I became extremely unhappy. And now I question everything. I believe it’s a responsibility to do it.“

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— Gabriel Byrne Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator 1950

On how people forgo truthful living for lies in “Gabriel Byrne: 'There’s a shame about men speaking out. A sense that if you were abused, it was your fault'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/08/gabriel-byrne-its-an-obscenity-to-tell-innocent-children-theyre-going-to-hell in The Guardian (2020 Nov 8)

„Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.“

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— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„That any should suffer forever, lingering on in hopeless despair, and rolling amidst infinite torments without the possibility of alleviation and without end; that since God can save men and will save a part, he has not proposed to save all — these are real, not imaginary, difficulties… My whole soul pants for light and relief on these questions. But I get neither; and in the distress and anguish of my own spirit, I confess that I see no light whatever. I see not one ray to disclose to me why sin came into the world; why the earth is strewn with the dying and the dead; and why man must suffer to all eternity. I have never seen a particle of light thrown on these subjects, that has given a moment's ease to my tortured mind… I confess, when I look on a world of sinners and sufferers — upon death-beds and grave-yards — upon the world of woe filled with hosts to suffer for ever: when I see my friends, my family, my people, my fellow citizens when I look upon a whole race, all involved in this sin and danger — and when I see the great mass of them wholly unconcerned, and when I feel that God only can save them, and yet he does not do so, I am stuck dumb. It is all dark, dark, dark to my soul, and I cannot disguise it.“

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— Albert Barnes American theologian 1798 - 1870

Practical Sermons Designed for Vacant Congregations and Families (1841), Sermon VIII : God Is Worthy of Confidence, p. 123.

„Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.“

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— Ravi Zacharias Indian philosopher 1946

2000s
Quelle: [I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love, 2005, 9781418515812, http://books.google.com/books?id=lhWCB2v3UlQC&pg=PA43&dq=%22Unless+I+understand+the+Cross%22, 43]