Quotes About Suffering

We all live in an unwalled city, that was it. I saw lines scored across the map of Ireland; carved all over the globe. Train tracks, roads, shipping channels, a web of human traffic that connected all nations into one great suffering body.

THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,      Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man      That wastes and withers there. Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,      And the Warder is Despair.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.

Among my male and female friends, there are a few who are of either a completely Uranian[1] or a bisexual[2] disposition. I have found these individuals far above average in terms of intelligence, ability, sensitivity, and personal charm. I empathize deeply with them, for I know that their sufferings are of a larger and more complex sort than those of ordinary people. [1] probably called transgender now [2] probably called genderqueer now

The field had to be "cleared of disturbing elements," and the Anarchists were the first to suffer. Since then the persecution of the Anarchists has never ceased.

It is the law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, must be exactly what you need most at the moment to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.

She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' 'That will be her undoing,' Artemis gasped, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. 'Artemis Fowl will never be secondary.' 'I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?' said Holly.

This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs. And although she smiled, her heart was breaking.

the ultimate despair.

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27]

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Yes, but what good will all this do me when a child of mine dies, or if my brother, or I myself, have to die or be tortured?' [19] Nothing. Because that's not why you came, not why you took your seat in front of me, not the reason you sometimes sacrificed sleep to study by lamplight.

Este es el origen del sufrimiento, querer algo y que no suceda

you have the power of patience to deal with your difficulties.

But if you try to avoid what you cannot control—sickness, poverty, death—you will inflict useless mental suffering upon yourself.

Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.

We must endure, and toil without complaining.

I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all.

Kreb platzt in den Laden eines Leinenhändlers herein. Vier Taschentücher, schnell, ich blute, ich schwitze, ich weine, ich huste. Hierher bitte, lieber Herr, lassen Sie mich Ihnen lieber unsere Auswahl an Leichentüchern zeigen.

Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.