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Quotes About Suffering

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
~ Jodi Picoult
Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible.
~ Jason Evert
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
~ Franz Kafka
Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
~ Don McCullin
Poverty is the worst form of death.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
~ Alessandro Baricco
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
~ Alex Campbell
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
~ Mitch Albom
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
~ Seneca the Younger
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.
~ Robert Walser
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
~ Robert Hunter
So what's on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.
~ Gary L. Francione
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
~ Dan Brown, Inferno
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
~ Galway Kinnell
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
~ Ashley Judd
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
~ Rupert Brooke
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
~ Emile M. Cioran
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
~ Arundhati Roy
Every call of Christ leads into death.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer