Quotes About Suffering

Cuando el dolor es muy grande el sufrimiento es silencioso

It's amazing how we will suffer pain and abuse to keep our lives predictable. We'll let our inner voices brutalize us, rather than live with the possibility that we might be wrong about how we see things. We'll think, 'Well at least it's a pain that's familiar'. Uncertainty

Those who beg in silence starve in silence

all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the Wheel.

Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel.

Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day. Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load!

So some of him lived but most of him died. (The Vampire)

She was like a stranger to me then, a stranger whose life had just been made utterly meaningless. I know this because I felt the same way. Meaning had gone wholly and and in one clot right out of my life too, and as result I'm sure I was like a stranger to her as well. Our individual pain was so great that that we could not recognize any other.

Let the soil here below stink and turn to a scarlet muck, and let us crawl through it until our mouths and nostrils fill with it and we drown in it with our hands on each other's throats—I no longer resist this war. I relish it.

Raquela stood at her side. "Your baby was stillborn. But you're all right." The mother screamed, "Even this they deny me! They take away my land. My freedom. Now my baby. Let me die. I want to die.

American GIs gave the morphine syringe each front-line soldier carried to the doctors and medics to alleviate the suffering of the half-dead concentration-camp victims.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Jinsei no Itami

He was like the Crow Captain. He didn't want to support a war that he hated, and he didn't want to cause any more suffering, even for his so-called enemy.

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

that you don't suffer because of someone else. There's never anyone but

She wanted to find out about the gods of this country, but she couldn't find any books on the subject in Spanish, and she doesn't read English, so she asked a lot of her customers, but apparently none of the Japanese knew anything, which made her wonder if people here never came up against the kind of suffering where you can't do anything but turn to your god for help. . .

People who thought it fun to keep tegu lizards in cases too small for them displayed a mentality exactly like that of his parents. "It's so cute!" they cooed as they fed the thing or gave it water or moved its case into the sunlight or warmed it with lamps. Even under the best conditions, lizards and tortoises never lived as long in captivity as in the wild; these people were slowly but surely killing the pets they found so adorable.

After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits: man could not survive here without it, for otherwise the biological, animal part of his nature would bite to death everything that is still human in him.

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pequeños países del Tercer Mundo tienen la posibilidad de despertar un vivo interés sólo cuando se deciden a derramar sangre. Es una triste verdad, pero así es.

El mundo contempla el gran espectáculo de lucha y muerte, cosas que le resultan difíciles de imaginar porque la imagen de la guerra es intransferible. No se puede transmitir ni con la pluma ni con la voz ni con la cámara. La guerra es una realidad solo para aquellos que están apresados en su interior, sangriento, sucio y repugnante. Para otros no es sino una página en un libro o unas imágenes en una pantalla; nada más.

We are in a world in which misery condemns some to death and transforms others into monsters. The former are the victims, the latter are the executioners. There is no one else.

De los sufrimientos, los que más afligen, son los que uno mismo ha escogido.