Quotes About Suffering

How many little kids were being orphaned or killed, right that minute, while I was sitting there watching TV?

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Ralph started to scream in pain. Not that 'stubbed your toe' sort of pain, but more a kind of 'detached kneecap' kind of pain, only with seven simultaneous childbirths, neuralgia, and a tooth abscess all mixed in as well, for good luck. The sort you hope you never get to experience.

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

True compassion is to suffer in silence for others.

Against the advice of doctors, the governor refuses to allow an incurably ill man to be put out of his misery. This is the other face of capital punishment. One day we shall have to fight for the abolition of the life penalty, as we did in the past for the abolition of the death penalty. Shadows have always preceded us, and they will outlive us. We were dead before we were alive, and we shall be again.

le monde est cruel parce qu'il est illusion.

SavaÅŸ ahlâk?yla yüce savaÅŸ "deÄŸerlerinden" söz edenler fazla üzülmesinler: Çünkü savaÅŸ bir simülakra benzediÄŸi zaman bile insana yeterince ac? çektirebilmekte ve sonuç olarak bu sava??n gazileri de diÄŸerleriyle ayn? düzeyde bir deÄŸere sahip olabilmektedirler.

In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.

Cet amour le ravageait d'autant plus qu'il précédait la connaissance de l'amour. C'était un mal vague, intense, contre lequel il n'existe aucun remède, un désir chaste sans sexe et sans but.

My birth was my first misfortune.

You need no call, you were born to this destiny. But you will be tested. You will cause pain and suffer for it Ã¢â'¬Â¦

He didn't know he had only the shell of the woman he loved. It didn't matter. The shell was enough.

We are in hell, my dear, there is never a mistake and people are not damned for nothing.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core.

Men all alone, completely alone with horrible monstrosities, will run through the streets, pass heavily in front of me, their eyes staring, fleeing their ills yet carrying with them, open-mouthed, with their insect-tongue flapping its wings. Then I'll burst out laughing even though my body may be covered with filthy, infected scabs which blossom into flowers of flesh, violets, buttercups.

When a man hasn't the courage to kill himself wholesale, he must do so retail.' He would walk down to the water and say: 'Farewell to what I love most in the world...

On this Earth that bleeds, all joy is obscene, and all happy men must live alone.

Canturrea para no pensar, padece como una avara, a veces desea sufrir un buen golpe, hundirse en la desesperación

To love was the greatest adventure life had to offer; but to love was to suffer.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.

When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His chosen ones.

I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.