Quotes About Suffering

I'd rather be dead than dying.

War is about dead people.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.

When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

It's hard to see your wife deteriorate in front of your eyes.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

I feel like I died as a child.

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Christ died for the truth.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.

I suffered during the military intervention of May 27, 1960, and then again on March 12, 1971 and again on September 12, 1980, and I was targeted February 28, 1997. My respect for the military aside, I have always been against interventions.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a lot about myself. I got into a mode very much like my father's own mode of seeking - seeking solutions, seeking teachers, seeking information - to try to alleviate my own suffering.