Quotes About Suffering

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

History is a bath of blood.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.