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Quotes About Suffering

On the way I saw American chewing gum wrappers by the side of the road. In one place a wad of chewing gum was sticking to the leaf of a weed. Here we were holding on for dear life, and these characters were chewing gum while they fought! I was more sad than angry. The chewing gum tinfoil told me just how miserably we had been beaten.
~ Hiroo Onoda
They dug up the graves and burnt the bodies," he said. He began to tell me of an elderly man in the town but then stopped. "Do you want to speak to him?" he asked. "Who dug up the bodies?" "Qaddafi's men, of course," he said in a mildly offended tone. "Reinforcements arrived in buses. The situation here is very bad.
~ Hisham Matar
God has to be a sadist to give people life.
~ Unknown
All I could do was escape from reality, but every time I tried to escape from the pain, that same pain told me that I had probably been falling in love with him.
~ Unknown
The silence of the room was shattered with a wail of pain coming from deep within me.
~ Unknown
Sunt oameni c?rora le lipse?te orice aptitudine pentru fericire ?i î?i dau seama de asta cu o luciditate dureroas? ?i necru??toare. Asemenea oameni nu urm?resc fericirea, ei urm?resc sa dea o oarecare form? ?i pu?in stil nenorocirii lor.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
The world isn´t kind to those who love.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Världen är inte god för dem som älska. Och in i mörkret bär det ju alltid till sist, för dem och för oss alla.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
The life of the person sentenced to this punishment trickled away drop by drop.
~ Unknown
ibis in crucem ('you shall go to the cross')
~ Unknown
Pain makes you strong, Madoc once told me, making me lift a sword again and again. Get used to the weight.
~ Holly Black
Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through deserts or sleep in ashes or make homes for transformed brothers in the woods. Girls without hands, without eyes, without the power of speech, without any power at all. But then a prince rides up and sees the girl and finds her beautiful. Beautiful, not despite her suffering, but because of it.
~ Holly Black
But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked. Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.
~ Holly Black
It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt. After all, hell is supposed to be hot.
~ Holly Black
It occurs to me that if I kill him, I can finally stop thinking about him. If I kill him, I won't have to feel like this anymore.
~ Holly Black
My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
~ Holly Black
A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.
~ Holly Black
It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That's the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realized I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.
~ Holly Black
Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's heart.
~ Holly Black
Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.
~ Holly Black
Happiness isn't something to carefully measure out in spoonfuls as though it's medicine. I don't need you to suffer to prove your love, and I definitely don't need you to hide your suffering. I want to shoulder half our burden.
~ Holly Black
love doesn't grow well, fed on pain.
~ Holly Black
She was a poisoned well of a girl.
~ Holly Black
Dolerá. El dolor te hace fuerte.
~ Holly Black