Quotes About Suffering

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

When all you know is pain you don't know that that is not normal. It is not a woman's lot to suffer, even if we've been raised that

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.

Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure.

A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it. You cannot look into the eyes of a starving child and yourself remain the same.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.