Quotes About Suffering

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

When an innocent man suddenly dies, God laughs. God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind, And if God didn't do it, who did? If I smile and try to forget my pain, All my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty. Since I am held guilty, why should I bother? No soap can wash away my sins.

Man, don't worry about me," he said. "I know you're going to get out of there." "Dad, I don't know if I'm ever coming home. You can have one of my lungs. If I'm gonna die in prison, I'd rather something of mine be free.

Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

The shorter Negro stood gazing at the horrible death of his brother without flinching. Five minutes later he was also hanged.

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

Saying of the Prophet Oppression When oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.

Dicho del Profeta Opresión Cuando existe la opresión, incluso el pájaro muere en su nido

Detto del Profeta Oppressione Quando c'è l'oppressione, anche l'uccello muore nel suo nido.

Golpéate tu mano en una piedra y espera que duela.

Qué es la humanidad? Sentir dolor ante las penas de tus vecinos, sentirse humillado ante la humillación de tus semejantes.

He taught that everything is transient, that happiness and youth can never last, that all life is suffering, and we are trapped by an endless cycle of birth and rebirth. If you have a good life, your next life will be better. If you do bad things, you will return next as a beggar, or a beast of burden perhaps. But only by giving up all desire can you escape the endless wheel and reach heaven.

Kitty O'Kane dreamed of a kind husband and a just life; what she had was haddock water for supper and a dribble of her own blood, seen at close quarters, on the toe of her father's scuffed boot.

History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball

We [the United States] are trusted. We are trusted to fight aggression, to relieve suffering, to serve as inspiration to freedom-seeking people, to stand alongside our friends, and to welcome the tired, the poor, the huddled masses of other lands yearning to breathe free. That is who we have been, now are, and always must be.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it "Because it is bitter, `And because it is my heart." Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines

By morning she was almost in a coma. Sometime between midnight and 2 A.M., Vickie and Colby began to suffer similar symptoms, although less severe. At first they suffered a sunburnlike condition and then diarrhea and vomiting. The following morning, Betty was moved to Vickie's house and all three were cared for there. Betty's condition continued to deteriorate, and three days later she was taken to the hospital.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.