Quotes About Suffering

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. Mrs.

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

War is an abstraction.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

We have to see the sufferings of Punjab and focus ourselves to address them.

I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.

N'est-il pas dans la noble destinée de la femme d'être plus touchée des pompes de la misère que des splendeurs de la fortune ?

That fellow was partly the cause of his mother's death. He chose to be a commercial traveller; and the trade just suited him, for he was no sooner in the house than he wanted to be out of it; he couldn't keep in one place, and he wouldn't learn anything. All I ask of God is that I may die before he dishonors my name. Those who have no children lose many pleasures, but they escape great sufferings.

No hay que haberlo experimentado todo para poder expresarlo todo? Y sentir vivamente, ¿no es sufrir? Por consiguiente, las poesías no se crean sino tras penosos viajes que se emprenden a las vastas regiones del pensamiento y de la sociedad.

Úgy látszik, az emberi természetben gyökerezik, hogy mindent elszenvedtetünk azzal, aki kész mindent elszenvedni igazi alázatosságból, gyengeségb?l vagy közönyb?l. Avagy nem szeretjük-e mindnyájan kipróbálni er?nket valakinek vagy valaminek a kárára?

I have endured everything: hunger and thirst, want of money, want of clothes, of shoes, of linen, every cruelty that penury can inflict. I have blown on my frozen fingers in that pickle-jar of great men, which I should like to see again, now, with you. I worked through a whole winter, seeing my head steam, and perceiving the atmosphere of my own moisture as we see that of horses on a frosty day. I do not know where a man finds the fulcrum that enables him to hold out against such a life.

Sufra, sufra, amigo mío, será famoso, sus penas son el precio de la inmortalidad. Mucho me gustaría a mí tener que soportar las penalidades de una lucha. Dios le guarde de una vida sin conflicto ni luchas, en la que las alas del águila no encuentran espacio bastante. ¡Envidio sus sufrimientos, pues al menos usted está vivo! ¡Desplegará sus fuerzas, esperará una victoria! Su lucha será gloriosa.

Physical pain pales beside moral suffering, but arouses more pity since it can be seen.

The day when, as a young girl, in all the radiance of her beauty and all the triumph of her life, she suffered, at the cost of her heart and her sweet illusions, the disenchantment which falls on us so slowly and yet so quickly — for we try to postpone as long as possible our belief in evil, and it seems to come too soon — that day was a whole age of reflection, and it was also a day of religious thought and resignation.

misery made me unjust to you.

Madame de Bargeton iba a encontrarse en esa tesitura en la que se han encontrado multitud de mujeres que se han perdido solo después de haber sido injustamente acusadas.

Las angustias de los infortunados no son menos dignas de atención que las crisis que revolucionan la vida de los poderosos y de los privilegiados de la tierra. Y además, ¿acaso no hay tanto dolor en unos como en otros?