Quotes About Suffering

Since her emotional reactions were without distinction, she had to fall back on the emotions of the past, great loves already lived and related, and over those she seemed to suffer and grow glad.

but this is another love—it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop—it rots me away.

When a Jew dies on a Christian bosom he dies impaled.

Suffering is the decay of the heart, all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all, as the pauper is the rudiment of a city, knowing something of the city, which the city, for its own destiny, wants to forget. So the lover must got against nature to find love.

If you don't want to suffer you should tear yourself apart.

What do they find then, that this lover has committed the unpardonable error of not being able to exist—and they come down with a dummy in their arms. God's last round, shadow-boxing, that the heart may be murdered and swept into that quiet still place where it can sit and say: 'Once I was, now I can rest.

Love is death, come upon with passion; I know, that is why love is wisdom. I love her as one condemned to it.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that may be in torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

Amore di donna per una donna... Che insana smania di sofferenza non lenita e di maternità l'ha mai portato alla mente?»

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart!

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

When I hear about someone else's pain, I feel pain too. i feel pain for everything - for people and animals.

I had to write a requiem for all those who died, who had suffered. (...) But how could I do it? I was constantly under suspicion then, and critics counted what percentage of my symphonies was in a major key and what percentage in a minor key. That oppressed me, it deprived me of the will to compose.

Ljudi se vide u patnji, narod na svadbi, a država u ratu.

Nije li, ipak, ljudska glupost mati svakog zla na ovom svetu?

Zar nas tek velika nesre?a zaista vra?a sebi? (...) Ima ne?ega istinski velikog, za um i dušu velikog, u svakoj pravoj nesre?i. Samo u njoj postoji jedna životna istina koje se više ne bi lišio. Nikad.

Ništa nas tako ne ujedinjuje kao bol.

Svet je odvratan prosto zato što su ljudi u ogromnoj ve?ini najobi?niji glupaci. I sve su nesre?e odatle. Iz gluposti.

I naružila se zemlja od pogašenih ognjišta. Dve zore nikad na istom bivaku. Kad menjaš ognjište, i narav ti se menja. Kad tebi otimaju, i ti otimaš. Veruj mi, u zlu su svi ljudi zli.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Because if you go against your heart and your intuition, it reaches you eventually. Then you have to face it, and usually everyone suffers. So it's better to be truthful, and maybe cause a little pain in the beginning. But to know what your truth is and where you should be is always the best.

Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.