Quotes About Suffering

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.

Gondold el: ha volna Isten, soha nem engedte volna azt a sok mindent, amit én láttam, a két szememmel.

THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts.

perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war.

Because, just then, death had come and rested its head on the foot of the cot and he could smell its breath.

Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.

She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I love someone it would take it all away. What

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

First you're indebted and then you beg.

Hay que tomar la muerte como si fuera aspirina

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man." He

must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

Because, just then, death had come and rested its head on the foot of the cot and he could smell its breath. Never believe any of that about a scythe and a skull, he told her. It can be two bicycle policemen as easily, or be a bird. Or it can have a wide snout like a hyena. It had moved up on him now, but it had no shape any more. It simply occupied space. Tell it to go away. It did not go away but moved a little closer. You've got a hell of a breath, he told it. You stinking bastard.

feeling." "No," she said. "I think it's hell on earth.

And what happened?' 'Much,' the woman said. 'Much. And all of it ugly. Even that which was glorious.

But Jesus Christ, what do you do at nights is what I want to know. How do you get through nights if you can't sleep? I guess you find out like you find out how it feels to lose your husband. I guess you find out all right. I guess you find out everything in this goddamned life.

Que cosa mas mala es la guerra - What a horrible thing war is

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

There is no way for you to get what you need and you will never have what you want again. But there are various palliative measures you should take. Go ahead. Take one.

The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and only could be hurt truly by what happened to others. He believed this, wrongly of course since he did not know then how one's capacities can change, nor how the other could change, and it was a comfortable belief.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

no me gusta esa resignación. Es un sentimiento malo que se adueña de los hombres cuando están a punto de alejarse o de traicionar; es el sentimiento que precede a la liquidación.

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.