Quotes About Suffering

His pain. His own. He made it.

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals.

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.

Solange man leidet, lebt man doch wenigstens. Ich fürchte mich nicht vor dem Sterben. Ich habe Angst vor dem Tod - einfach, weil dann alles zu Ende ist.

suggesting that, though their situation might be strange , there was nothing new about suffering .

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...

Ich hatte Angst in ein Gasthaus zu gehen wenn Bauern drinnensaßen. Ich dachte mir daß sie nichts Gutes über mich denken. Ich überwand diese Angst mit der Vorstellung etwas Besonderes zu sein. Das Besondere bestand in meinem Leid. Ich war erfüllt von dem Maß meiner Leiden. Ich habe Angst diese Leiden aufzugeben weil ich nicht weiß was dann von mir übrigbleibt.

Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt

Pain demands to be felt.

At some point, for all eternity, there will be no more unmerited suffering: this present darkness, "the age of evil", will eventually be remembered as a brief flicker at the beginning of human history. Every evil done by the wicked to the innocent will have been avenged, and every tear will have been wiped away

But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of human events to a larger philosophical and spiritual context, in the deployment of fiction as a social and political weapon, in the exultation of 'the people' as a supreme authority, in the treatment of suffering as a dominant theme--in all these matters Hugo exerted a profound influence on Tolstoy.

You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and kick the shit out of him?" Perreault laughed nervously. "Someone actually tried that?" "What happens is, the dog's a social animal, and it gets so lonely it actually looks forward to the shit-kicking. It asks to be kicked. It begs.

Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spread centuries apart. The Chimp is shackled by its own stupidity, And you, well...

I don't know what parts of me the Ceph have blown away and I don't know how much else has been broken down to keep the rest of me going, but I know that at least my balls are still intact. I know this because I can feel them crawling back up into my abdomen.

The water's too deep to stand in now— ...feebly treading water although her limbs must be frozen almost to paralysis. It's a pointless effort, a brainstem effort; last duties discharged, last options exhausted, still the body grabs for those last few seconds, brief suffering still somehow better than endless nonexistence.

Gelmesinden ba?ka ?ifam yoktur. Gelmezse, yeryüzünde hiç bir güzel canl? ve enteresan ?eyin beni oyalayamayaca??n? dü?ünmenin verdi?i bir ümitsizlik de?heti içinde yerime oturur, gözlerimi buzlu camlar?n yar? karanl?k zemininde oynayan kaderin par?lt?lar?na dikerim.

Ist?rab?n derinlerine indikçe sevincimizi kaybetmek korkusu kalmad??? için, yeni bir sevinç ba?l?yor: Ist?rab?n ilac? ?st?rapt?r. ?kisinin has?l-? zarb?: Sevinç.

?ki tarafta da arzuyu gurura hesap vermeye ça??ran iç muhasebe anlar? olmasayd?, kendi kendini yiyen a?k?n i?kenceleri ne kadar azal?rd?.