Quotes About Suffering

In verità vi dico: ciò che sentite quando state morendo di sete, coltivatelo. Lo slancio mistico non è che questo. E non è una metafora. La fine della fame si chiama sazietà. La fine della stanchezza si chiama riposo. La fine della sofferenza si chiama conforto. La fine della sete non ha nome. La lingua, nella sua saggezza, ha capito che non è possibile creare il contrario di sete. Ci si può dissetare, ma la parola dissetamento non esiste.

L'enfant eut le cÅ"ur comprimé de souffrance. Mais à l'intérieur d'elle quelque chose de fort et de clair chuchotait : Moi, je me souviens, moi, je sais que ce n'était pas un rêve, moi, je sais que la déesse est ma mère et moi, je sais qu'elle m'aime comme je l'aime et que cet amour existe.

La souffrance de la revoir fut si vive qu'elle mesura dans son âme l'ampleur des dégâts.

C'è gente abbastanza sfortunata da trovare l'amore della sua vita, lo scrittore della sua vita, il filosofo della sua vita, ecc. E ovvio che diventeranno dei rincoglioniti.

Quand on cesse de souffrir, cela s'appelle réconfort. Cesser d'avoir soif ne s'appelle pas.

Avanzó hacia mí con Hiroshima en el ojo derecho y Nagasaki en el izquierdo.

Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.

Y preferí no vivir —que no es vida la presente—, sino acabar lentamente, lentamente, de morir.

I shadow my gaze in your presence and pray you may ne'er be part, Of the hunger that class at my vitals of the evil that blackens my heart.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.

The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we've lost would bore him. Acknowledging the victims of COVID-19 would be to associate himself with their weakness, a trait his father taught him to despise.

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

I learned a lot about pain and suffering during 'Pan Am.' We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments.

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.