Quotes About Suffering

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.

He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I believe in Hell . . . but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now... if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

Kai gim? vaikai ir Luisas jaut?si toks kone absurdiškai laimingas, kad tragedija reg?josi tiesiog neišvengiama, jis žaisdavo mintyse tok? žaidim?. Gul?davo lovoje ir prisiversdavo pasirinkti, ko pirmiausia sutikt? netekti: santuokos, darbo, kurio nors vaiko. Jam buvo ?domu, kiek žmogus gal?t? pakelti, kol virst? nuliu.

I think my heart can't possibly hurt any more than it already does.

No se puede luchar contra la injusticia del destino. Lo único que se puede hacer es sufrirla y esperar un mañana diferente.

don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now… if she is somewhere.

The village, without bread, grew bitter. There was nothing to break at the table with family, to digest over conversation.

tears had a whole different melody, didn't they, without the pain threaded through them?

Truth vibrates when it's drawn across the bow of pain.

If you chose to stop a loved one's suffering—either before it began or during the process—was that murder, or mercy?

But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He

Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It

what they felt. They prayed for their lives but had no control over them; I pray for my death but have no control over it. This is why I want you to help me.

In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy

Meanwhile, we chip ice, shovel snow, thaw pipes, scrape windows. Winter lasts forever on this god-forsaken world.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Evil, crime, or suffering comes at us in many ways, and rarely does it wave a flag or blow a whistle to say, "Get ready, I'm coming!

The insight provided by the research is simple: As long as Americans continue to practice nutritional indifference, they will suffer the consequences. Don't expect any significant protection from marginal changes.

Remember in the midst of your most grievous afflictions that the worst state of a believer is better than the best state of an unbeliever.

So how does one prepare his or her heart for martyrdom?