Quotes About Suffering

Humour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

It did not occur to Hitler, after his victories in the west, that it might be more difficult to overcome a brutalised society, inured to suffering, than democracies such as France and Britain, in which moderation and respect for human life were deemed virtues.

Yet both Langlais and 'Bruno' were better suited to enduring a crucifixion than inspiring a resurrection.

Polish women and children were used as human shields for the advance of German troops.

The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.

Near a large inn, the 'Roter Krug,' stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture.

It is not only more bloody and more murderous than any previous wars but also more cruel, more relentless, more pitiless … It discards all the parameters to which we defer in times of peace and which we called the rights of man. It does not recognise the privileges of the wounded man or of the doctor and it does not distinguish between non-combatants and the fighting part of the population.

He saw you cast into a river of life you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body that gets sick and a heart that grows weak. He saw you in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you staring into the pit of your own failures and the mouth of your own grave. He saw you in your own garden of Gethsemane and he didn't want you to be alone ... He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

O, bože nepravedni, šta ?eš još navaliti na moju glavu! Nije ni najpametnija, ni najgluplja. Toliki krivi i nekrivi prožive život neprestano zijevaju?i. Zašto baš mene izabra da mi nikad ne bude dosadno? I uvijek moram da rješavam nerješive zadatke, kao tre?i brat u pri?i. A volio bih da mi malo bude i dosadno, i lako, i glatko, i da mirno spavam ljetni dan do podne, i da se budim bez misli i bez muke, i da ne mislim na sutrašnji dan sa strahom.

And what never happened always seems beautiful. You are a deception that gives birth to discontent, a deception that I cannot and do not wish to drive away, since it disarms me and protects me from suffering with a quiet grief.

Bismilahir-rehmanir-rahim I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script, which flows from the quill; I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening, the night and all she enlivens; I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns. I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself; I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.

no one could take her away from me alive; I held her pinned to the ground in that beastly grip. The river became silent; the only sound was that of bells within me, unknown and unrung until then, all of my bells, as if they were sounding an alarm. People would gather around; they did not concern me; they did not exist. Oh, my dream, which has become a victim.

Ne voliš ljude? -Ljudi su kona?no izdijeljeni, niko nam ne može pomo?i, ponekad se pravimo da to ne znamo, ili zaboravljamo jer nam izgleda nemogu?e, ne mirimo se ali je tako. Neka idu do ?avola. -Ni život ne voliš? -Ostavi me na miru! Šta ho?eš da volim? Slaganje varke na varku, davno sam negdje pro?itao. I smijao se. Sad se ne smijem. Nije veseo taj tvoj život.

Kunem se vremenom, koje je po?etak i završetak svega, da je svako uvijek na gubitku.

I ni?eg ne bi bilo od ovog što me boli, ni Harunove smrti, ni ove no?i posljednje. A možda bi i bilo, jer neka no? mora biti posljednja, i nešto mora biti što boli, uvijek.

Je li vlast od Boga? Ako nije, odakle joj pravo da nam sudi? Ako jest, kako može da pogriješi? Ako nije, sruši?emo je; ako jest, sluša?emo je. Ako nije od Boga, šta nas obavezuje da trpimo nepravde? Ako je od Boga, jesu li to nepravde, ili kazna zbog viših ciljeva. Ako nije, onda je nada mnom i nad tobom i nad svima nama izvršeno nasilje, i onda smo opet mi krivi što ga podnosimo.

Ljudi ne vole zlo, pa ipak ga podnose. Kad bi zlo i surovost bili dovoljno pametni da znaju granicu do koje smiju da se name?u, da ne izazivaju ogor?enje, dugo bi trajali. Ružna je to misao, ali izgleda da je ta?na, ljudi se teško pokre?u dok mogu da žive podnošljivo, tek kad im postane suviše teško, kad po?nu da tonu, po?inju da misle i da se otimaju.

nous n'allons pas ensevelir la dépouille de cet homme pour proclamer son innocence, nous ferons plus : nous sèmerons ces ossements en souvenir d'une injustice. Qu'il en germe ce que Dieu décidera.

Može biti r?avo kad ?ovjek ne osje?a da je vrijeme dugo. U ratu nije dosadno, ni u nesre?i, ni u muci. Kad je teško, nije dosadno.

Sad smo jednaki, unesre?ili su nas zli ljudi.

Cry out for justice in the name of those who suffer injustice.