Quotes About Suffering

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.

Thou has endowed man with the wisdom to relieve the suffering of his brother, to recognize his disorders, to extract the healing substances, to discover their powers and to apply them to suit every ill.

Tener hambre y no poder comer es morir un poco cada minuto, cada segundo.

Via?a nu se împline?te prin uitarea suferin?ei, ci prin zilnica transformare a mâhnirii în în?elegere, a cruzimii în tandre?e ?i a am?r?ciunii în dulcea??.

Mul?i dintre noi se las? încovoia?i sub ap?sarea ?tiin?ei ce au dobândit ?i abia se mai mi?c?, strivi?i ca animalele de corvoad? sub înc?rc?tura din spinare.

Da qualche parte Didi si putrefaceva e moriva in eterno. Giorno dopo giorno. Mese dopo mese. Anno dopo anno.

I would have thought that you'd be tired of vomiting blood and going to therapy and the prospect of being a nervous wreck all your life. Trés masochistic.

I'm so angry,' she said. 'I was all right until you came back. I'd given up. So many terrible things. Relatives, neighbors disappearing. Opa. The bloody Germans coming to...to strip us bare. Oma's silence. Bam, bam, bam. Like being punched over and over again. You get numb. It doesn't hurt anymore. Unless you start to hope. That's the trick, you see: you can take anything unless you start to hope.

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.

It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Every policeman knows the truth: there is no limit to the things that people will do to other people. And every torturer knows the way to make a man betray himself. It doesn't matter how tough he is, how many torments he can endure on his own body, he can't endure even the whisper of evil being done to his darling.

For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

My father finally performed the ritual thathe owed to the Earth Shrine, but the questions remain: Why do the innocent suffer from the negligence of others? Why is it that social responsibilities are inseparable from rituals? And why is it so important that every individual in a community stay in good rapport with their gods and goddesses? Here

I thought there were limits to human suffering. At Bir-Jdid, I was to discover that there were none

My dad was Callum McGregor. Hanged for political terrorism. Hanged for being a rapist and a murderer. Hanged for being a son of a bitch.

you experience the one thing that drunks and druggies and all the miserable, lonely, unhappy people in this world share.' 'And what's that?

You see, I'll never get out of hell if there's not even you left to pray for me

God told me, "I have taken one from you, but I will give you thousands.

The warmth of hell would be a blessing after this. Do you suppose there is a cold hell for those who died in wintertime? - Fernandez de Anguilar

Ob wir den Frieden Gottes wirklich gefunden haben, wird sich daran erproben, wie wir zu den Trübsalen, die über uns kommen, stehen.