Quotes About Suffering

It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

It's not been a pleasant life.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

All the pain, suffering, love, passion, and conflict have made me what I am.

That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and they succeed little bit, but I survived and I am now free, but it was very hard - a very difficult time - and I wish no one would suffer what I suffered, and then when I speak to you and try to be human being like everyone.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

I went through 17 operations. I had to deal with the pain every single day. I used to compare my scars with buffalo skin. And because my skin wasn't have any pores, I cannot sweat, make me feel so tired, so headache.

I cannot sweat because there is no hair and no pores on the skin grafts. And, can you imagine, there is no blood at all in my scars?

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the French go for Jerry Lewis - enough said).

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.