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Quotes About Suffering

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.
~ Unknown
I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it
~ Mercedes McCambridge
Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.
~ Tennessee Williams
Despair is infidelity and death.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.
~ Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
~ Jack Abbott
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
~ Philip Larkin
There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.
~ Gabriel Macht
The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
~ Gary L. Francione
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
~ Unknown
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
~ Gautama Buddha
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
~ Aeschylus
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
~ Erich Fromm
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.
~ William Shakespeare
What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?
~ Francis Bacon
Homeless, wifeless, mistressless, penniless . . . jump in the cold river and drown.
~ Philip Roth
How do you have one eyes?" asked Rosa, gently rocking him to and fro. "Por qué?" "La guerra," he moaned. "It cry, glasseye?" "I told you, it wasn't cheap.
~ Philip Roth
Trabalho - Certas pessoas anseiam por trabalho, qualquer trabalho, por mais pesado e desagradável que seja, a fim de drenar a dureza de suas vidas e afastar da mente os pensamentos homicidas...
~ Philip Roth
A culpa em alguém como Bucky pode parecer absurda, porém é, de fato, inevitável. Uma pessoa como ele está condenada. Jamais irá corresponder ao ideal que carrega dentro de si. Nunca sabe onde termina sua responsabilidade. Jamais aceita seus limites porque, sobrecarregado com uma severa bondade natural que não lhe permite resignar-se ao sofrimento dos outros, nunca admitirá , sem se sentir culpado, que possa estar sujeito a alguma limitação
~ Philip Roth
Pills and pain. Aldomet for my blood pressure and Zantac for my gut. A to Z. Then you die.
~ Philip Roth
Instead, employing the disguise of my own face and name, I listened intently to all the suppositions spawned by his unbearable grievance, to the suffering spilling out of him in every word; I studied him with the coldhearted fascination and intense excitement of a well-placed spy.
~ Philip Roth
the love thrust upon the Swede seemed actually to deprive him of feeling.
~ Philip Roth
sostuvieron a base de falsas esperanzas y al final nos enviaron a la muerte por vía férrea.
~ Philip Roth