Quotes About Suffering

the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.

After a lifetime in which every experience of love was touched by shame and suffering, the prospect of falling in love filled Ka with an intense, almost instinctive dread.

Knowing that she doesn't love me hurts so much that I'd rather think she was taken against her will, which in turn makes me think of how I want to kill those bastards. Our ancestors used to torture criminals before they executed them—it's in times like these that one truly understands the importance of tradition.

They've been taping your phone conversations for four years." He lay down again, weeping silently. "I want to die," he said.

How difficult it is being human, even worse is living a human's life.

San o junaštvu je utjeha za nesretne. Osim toga, na što se svodi junaštvo naših ljudi? Na ubijanje: ubijaju ili jedni druge, ili sami sebe!

Do koje nam je mjere dano doživjeti patnje i ljubavi drugih ljudi? Koliko možemo razumjeti one oko sebe ?ije su boli i bijeda i razo?aranja dublji i teži od naših? Ako razumjeti zna?i staviti se na mjesto onih koji su od nas druga?iji, jesu li bogataši i suci ovoga svijeta ikada shvatili nebrojene patnike koji su ih okruživali?

Cuánto podemos alguna vez saber sobre el amor y el dolor en otro corazón? ¿Cuánto podemos esperar entender a quienes han sufrido la angustia más profunda, una mayor privación, y más decepciones aplastamiento que nosotros mismos hemos conocido

There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be conscious that we possess decided ability for some particular calling, and to be compelled by circumstances, year after year, to be chained to drudgery which the heart loathes, requires supreme courage.

I have always had this fear, the fear that love is not enough. One must be able to love yet also to live together and to live in this world, which will probably always remain cruel.

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?

That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

In that deep place she knew that it was all her fault, that evil arose out of the dark shadows of her heart and seeped into the world poisoning everything. She carried the beast inside her heart, the devourer of happiness... No, no, it's not true, she said silently...God does not want my death, not by my own hand, never by my own hand...It wouldn't help anyone. Wouldn't help, would only hurt. Wouldn't help, would only...

Mikal sintió un dolor que no podía soportar. Puso su mano en el fuego hasta que el dolor de su cuerpo forzó a remitir el dolor de su corazón. Entonces retiró la mano, la frotó y se preguntó por qué las heridas internas no podían curarse con tanta facilidad.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Her barrel of misery has depth enough to hold a thousand bushels of happiness.

Una esclava que se alegra es una esclava de todas formas.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

The pride of universal guilt. It's a form of vanity and egomania. She holds herself responsible for things that could not possibly be her fault. As if she controlled everything, as if other people's suffering came about as punishment for her sins.

We never hated Grego," said Olhado. "I should have known," said Miro. "I knew he was suffering the worst pain of any of us, but it never occurred to me . . ." "Don't blame yourself," said Ender. "It's the kind of thing that only a stranger can see.