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Quotes About Suffering

Las aves domésticas se distinguen de las de corral en que las guardamos en jaulas exclusivamente para satisfacer el placer estético. El nuestro, claro. Del placer que sienten las aves condenadas a ver a sus dueños, no sé nada.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Ale mo?e raczej nale?a?oby powiedzie?, ?e naczeln?, podstawow? m?k? jest nie co innego, tylko cierpienie, zrodzone z ograniczenia drugim cz?owiekiem, z tego, ?e si? dusimy i d?awimy w ciasnym, w?skim, sztywnym wyobra?eniu o nas drugiego cz?owieka.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
surely pain, suffering are as terrible in a worm's body as in the body of a giant, pain is "one" just as space is one, indivisible, wherever it appears, it is the same total horror.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Die Straße stinkt nach Blut. Hier haben sie die Wahrheit massakriert.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Dieses Leben? Nein, dieses Leben ist weniger als Nichts. Ich mach nicht mehr mit, du. Was sagst du? Vorwärts, Kameraden, das Stück wird selbstverständlich brav bis zu Ende gespielt. Wer weiß, in welcher finsteren Ecke wir liegen oder an welcher süßen Brust, wenn der Vorhang endlich, endlich fällt. Fünf graue verregnete Akte!
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Amar es sufrir. Para evitar el sufrimiento se debe no amar. Pero entonces se sufre por no amar. Luego, amar es sufrir, y no amar es sufrir. Sufrir es sufrir. Ser feliz es amar. Ser feliz es, por lo tanto, sufrir. Pero sufrir hace que uno no sea feliz. Así, para no ser feliz, se debe amar, o amar para sufrir, o sufrir de demasiada felicidad. Espero que estéis tomando nota.
~ Unknown
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, Boy, the food at this place is really terrible. The other one says, Yeah, I know; and such small portions. Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
~ Woody Allen
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
~ Woody Allen
You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.
~ Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.
~ Woody Allen
It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.
~ Woody Allen
Justo castigo -¡Dios mío, las cosas que me pasan!
~ Woody Allen
Para acabar con la tradición judaica Leyendas hasídicas según la interpretación de un distinguido erudito El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello
~ Woody Allen
We are adrift alone in the cosmos wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.
~ Woody Allen
El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello
~ Woody Allen
Not long after the custody hearing Wilk died of a brain tumor, which was ironic as I was asked early on in the proceedings, by a magazine, if losing the custody of the children wasn't the worst thing that could happen to me, and I said no, the worst thing would be getting an inoperable brain tumor.
~ Woody Allen
Mia had three beautiful sisters and three brothers. One brother died behind the controls of a plane. Another brother committed suicide with a gun. The third brother was convicted of molesting boys and sentenced to prison.
~ Woody Allen
Sophocles said to never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
~ Woody Allen
There's an old joke. Two elderly women are at a mountain resort. One of them says, Boy, the food at this place is really terrible. The other one says, Yeah, I know, and such small portions. Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
~ Woody Allen
La vida esta llena de soledad, miseria, sufrimiento, tristeza y, sin embargo, se acaba demasiado deprisa.
~ Woody Allen
As I got older, not just extinction but the meaninglessness of existence became clearer to me. I ran into the same question that bugged the former prince of Denmark: Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?
~ Woody Allen
Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?
~ Woody Allen
WaÅ'Ä™samy siÄ™ samotnie po kosmosie i z rozczarowania i z bólu zadajemy sobie nawzajem gwaÅ't.
~ Woody Allen
You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, ... He would have pointed to you and said, Y'know, I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these.
~ Unknown