Quotes About Suffering

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

How did we take this life picture and somehow misconstrue it to mean that if we just believed in Jesus, our lives would be wealthy, prosperous, and happy? Jesus doesn't promise that. Jesus says that many great things will come to those who follow Him, but He also promises a whole lot of lousy. And here's the key: The lousy isn't rotten. The lousy isn't sin. The focus of your life is not supposed to be dodging lousy. Because lousy is life. And lousy is important.

God giveth, and God taketh away. Sometimes in the same day.

Malia said, "And where were you when the mortar hit?" The rapture drained out of the corporal's face. His face clouded. His hand dropped from his heart and grabbed the bottle of honey wine. After pouring a generous slug into his mouth, he swallowed it, shivered, and stared at them all with a haunted expression. "Stalingrad," he said. "The Elbow of the Don.

They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.

Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.

I never meant it, " he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.

I must be alive, " Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.