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Quotes About Suffering

Every medicine is vain.
~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The greater the pain, the greater the fun.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
Cattle... it called us cattle...We're hamburger, you mean.
~ Peter Clines, 14
Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn't care, because if it did, it would've reversed.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)
~ Siobhan Davis, True Calling
I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.
~ Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch
~ J.A. Huss
....All of the medicine hurts.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.
~ Nhat Hanh
Now smile a real smile for me so I know you're not suffering inside.
~ Kevin Henkes
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
~ Jethro Tull
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
~ Philippa Gregory
The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.
~ Henri Barbusse
Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.
~ Sylvia Plath
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
~ Charles Spurgeon
You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.
~ Frederick Lenz
I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.
~ Tanmaya Guru
The money is the only source of smile for the poor.
~ Tanmaya Guru
What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
~ Dorothee Solle