Quotes About Suffering

After all I've lost, what's left to lose?

After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless

Even bad guys," Roy said patiently, "deserve compassion. This man has suffered. You can see that. I need to get my hands on him, yes, and be sure that society's safe from him—but he still deserves to be treated with compassion, with as much mercy as possible.

The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion.

One eye had been torn from its socket.

The world's crawling with people who don't respect anyone or anything, but we're supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they've been so poorly treated by life.

stink of urine and feces. Four or five of the sleepers, unable to rise

Every year in this war and that, even in our own cities, countless children are killed, while those who spray the bullets—or plant the roadside bomb, authorize the use of nerve gas, send the drone with the Hellfire missile that strikes the wrong target—shed not a tear, referring to those tender deceased as mere "collateral damage," if they acknowledge

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

But once in a while, they have to see one of their own get his package cut off just so they'll stop and wonder if maybe there is a god.

Shacket has been in a foul mood since leaving Cedar City. Mile by mile, the arid Mojave leaches out of him what little human kindness has not been drained away by the endless injustices he has suffered.

Whether God's a Catholic, a Baptist, a Jew, a Muslim, or a quantum mechanic, He gives us compensation for our pain, compensation right here in this world, not just in those parallel to it and not just in some afterlife. Always compensation for the pain…if we recognize it when we see it.

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain, but also of pure terror, and carried on it were words: "He's biting, he's biting!

were half dead from too little water

Soon, both of the Dawson children would be slaughtered, reduced to nothing more than bloody mounds of dead meat.

The correct question has three equal parts. What's wrong with humanity? Then…what's wrong with nature, with its poison plants, predatory animals, earthquakes, and floods? And last…what's wrong with cosmic time, as we know it, which steals everything from us?

She clung to life, not for herself, but for Julia's sake. It hurt her to know Ruth was in pain. Why did those who were good always have to suffer?

No one told me it would hurt this much.

hurts?" "My whole arm hurts.

Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?