Etty Hillesum Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

  Etty Hillesum

  Rain, Fall, Acceptance

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.483, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

  Etty Hillesum

  Suffering, Doe, Matter

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.460, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

  Etty Hillesum

  Giving Up, Suffering, Awful

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

• I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Eye, Thinking, Suffering

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.545, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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