Quotes About Suffering

She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering

Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?

Autor wspomina w ksi??ce, jak to na jednej z pamiÄ…tkowych notatek pozostawionych po wizycie w rze?ni któreÅ› z odwiedzajÄ…cych jÄ… dzieci napisaÅ'o: DziÄ™kujÄ™ za Å›wiÅ"skie oczy. Faktycznie, przydaÅ'yby nam siÄ™ oczy zwierzÄ…t, ?ebyÅ›my mogli rzeczywiÅ›cie zobaczy?, na czym polega dramat losu, jaki ludzie im zgotowali. Ludzkie najwyra?niej nam nie wystarczajÄ…. - PosÅ'owie Dariusza Gzyry

there are only so many times that you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

De ce facem asa? De ce lucrurile dureroase sunt intotdeauna niste electromagneti?

Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer? The next morning she led me to the coat closet, which faces the living room, she went in with me, we were in there all day, although she knew he wouldn't come until the afternoon, it was too small, we needed more space between us, we needed Nothing Places, she said "This is what it's felt like, except you weren't here." We looked at each other in silence for hours.

Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?

Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it mort important than sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

Let's describe the reality: that piece of meat came from an animal who, at best—and it's precious few who get away with only this—was burned, mutilated, and killed for the sake of a few minutes of human pleasure. Does the pleasure justify the means?

The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is still inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD PEOPLE They never do.

I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it?

Ela escreveu: quem me dera ser outra vez rapariga e ter a possibilidade de viver de novo a minha vida. Sofri muito mais que o necessário. E as alegrias que tive nem sempre foram alegres. Podia ter vivido de uma maneira diferente.

E allora quanta sofferenza è accettabile? È questa la base di tutto, ed è questo che ognuno di noi deve chiedersi. Quanta sofferenza sei disposto a tollerare per il tuo cibo?

More than any set of practices, factory farming is a mind-set: reduce production costs to the absolute minimum and systematically ignore or "externalize" such costs as environmental degradation, human disease, and animal suffering.

That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for your food?

270,000 more people become hungry each day).

Wszyscy przeczuwamy niebezpiecze?stwo. Nasze jedzenie powstaje kosztem ogromnego cierpienia.Gdy kto? proponuje nam obejrzenie filmu o produkcji mi?sa, spodziewamy si? horroru. Mo?liwe, ?e wiemy wi?cej, ni? nam si? wydaje. Wolimy jednak odsuwa? od siebie t? ?wiadomo??. Jedz?c mi?so, spo?ywamy udr?czone zwierz?. Z bia?ka pochodz?cego od torturowanych stworze? powstaj? nasze mi??nie.

Întru boal? È™i întru boal?", a continuat el s? citeasc?. "Asta îÈ›i doresc. S? nu cauÈ›i È™i s? nu aÈ™tepÈ›i miracole. Nu exist? miracole. Nu mai exist?. Iar pentru durerea care doare cel mai tare nu exist? vindecare. Exist? doar medicina, aceea de a-i crede suferinÈ›a celuilalt È™i de a fi acolo pentru el." (p. 317)

Just as nothing we do has the direct potential to cause nearly as much animal suffering as eating meat, no daily choice that we make has a greater impact on the environment.

the birds will be handled roughly and, as I was also told, the workers will regularly feel the birds' bones snapping in their hands.

If it was your child, do you want your child to suffer three years, three months, three weeks, three hours, three minutes? A turkey chick isn't a human baby, but it suffers. I've never met anyone in the industry — manager, vet, worker, anyone — who doubts that they feel pain. So how much suffering is acceptable? That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for your food? My