Quotes About Suffering

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.

Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ¿Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura. Si te pegan un balazo en la nuca, por ejemplo, y el pinche asesino se acerca sin que lo escuches, te vas al otro mundo sin dolor y sin sufrimiento. Pinche escuincle, dijo Epifanio. ¿A ti han pegado muchos tiros en la nuca?

This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature.

Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.

I'm an educated man: the prisons I know are subtle ones. And of course poetry and prison have always been neighbors. And yet it's melancholia that's the source of my attraction.

Images,wounds. That is all he can see. And the images are dissolving little by little, like the setting sun, leaving only the wounds.

Si el Paraíso, para ser Paraíso, propicia un vasto Infierno, el deber del poeta es convertir el Paraíso en Infierno

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That's our fortune.

La noción del tiempo, ah, la noción del tiempo de los enfermos, qué tesoro escondido en una cueva en el desierto. Los enfermos, por lo demás, muerden de verdad, mientras que las personas sanas hacen como que muerden pero en realidad sólo mastican aire.

Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that's a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.

she knew he was a prisoner and wanted to escape, she knew that love, no matter how mistreated or mutilated, always left room for hope, and that hope was her plan (or the other way around), and that its materialization, its objectification

Penso nos poetas mortos no potro de tortura, nos mortos de aids, de overdose, em todos os que acreditaram no paraíso latino-americano e morreram no inferno latino-americano.

pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.

El dolor se acumula, decía mi amigo, eso es un hecho, y cuanto mayor sea el dolor menor es la casualidad.

I've always been sensitive to the pain of others, always tried to feel a part of everyone else's suffering.

En ik dacht: zo is de geschiedenis, een kort gruwelverhaal.

Mi poema se llama "Todos sufren". No me importa que me miren.

That way you can put me out of my misery and I can begin to carry on with my life.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)

It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.