Quotes About Suffering

F I suffer migraines I endure

Bu dünya berbat bir yer, hepsi bu.

Silence is a productive coating over pain." -We Were Liars

Silence is a protective coating over pain." I understood, and I managed to erase Granny Tipper from conversation, the same way I had erased my father. Not happily, but thoroughly.

Silence is a protective coating over pain. (p.29)

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

Wisdom disguises our wounds: it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Le réel me donne de l'asthme.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured—especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

At some point in this generation, "Take up your cross and follow me" changed into, "Come to Jesus and he'll make your life better.

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.

Not a yard but was part of a shell-hole--not an inch, to be more precise-- And most of the holes held water, and all the water was ice: They stared at the bleak blue heavens like the glazed blue eyes of the slain, Till the snow came, shutting them gently, and sheeting the slaughtered plain.

Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food. There are slow starvations and divers ones. - Doctor Day

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

There are no winners in battle. Just survivors.

if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires.

If the appetite goes, the pain goes with it.

Hitler was therefore determined to trump the enemy in the art of propaganda. He was a brilliant popular orator and drew huge crowds. He knew there was no better way to incite a mob to action than to give them a scapegoat, someone they could blame for their suffering, and he found one in the Jews.

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

El abismo de dos mundos incomunicables se abre entre el hombre que tiene el sentimiento de la muerte y el que no lo tiene; sin embargo, los dos mueren; pero uno ignora su muerte, el otro la sabe; el uno no muere más que un instante, el otro no cesa de morir…

Haven't people learnned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy.