Quotes About Suffering

Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.

People died of carelessness, of corruption, of abuse, and yet, in every round of voting, gave their enthusiastic approval to the politicians who made their life unbearable.

Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time.

To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.

A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.

Disgust at the torments that shackle us, the chains of heavy life.

There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.

Solo se dejaba distraer, si es que se puede decir así, por otro motivo de sufrimiento. Un dolor nuevo obraba en ella como una especie de antídoto.

No es locura, Dede, es dolor. -No derramó ni una lágrima. -Las lágrimas no son el dolor. -Sí, pero sin las lágrimas, ¿quién te asegura que el dolor existe?

If she had already yielded, if she had already swallowed that insult, her bond with Stefano must truly be strong. She loved him, she loved him like the girls in the photonovels. For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.

E infine si mise a ridere e proclamò con una certa solennità: "Io non mi innamorerò mai di nessuno e non scriverò mai mai mai una poesia". "Non ci credo". "E' così". "Ma gli altri si innamoreranno di te". "Peggio per loro". "Soffriranno come questa Didone". "No, si andranno a fidanzare con un'altra, proprio come ha fatto Enea, che alla fine si è messo con la figlia di un re".

Si rien ne pouvait nous sauver, ni l'argent, ni le corps d'un homme, ni même les études, autant tout détruire immédiatement.

Onun tatt??? haz, ard?ndan hala hissettiÄŸi, kusursuz sadakate neden olan ac? olmadan mümkün deÄŸildir gibi geldi.

La testa, ah sì, il male è là, è per l'insoddisfazione della testa che il corpo si sta ammalando.

horrors of inequality, violence, always carried

El dolor no cuajó alrededor de nada.

Nino tem algo que o devora por dentro, assim como Lila, o que é um dom e um sofrimento, não são alegres, não se abandonam, temem o que acontece a ser redor...

Corrado lhe disse: que foi Vittò, você está doente, está com uma cara feia, e ela respondeu: sim, estou doente no coração, no peito, no ventre, estou com uma cara horrível.

Losing your anchor, feeling yourself to be light is not an advantage, it's cruel to yourself and to others.

It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris in a muddy water of the brain. The frantumaglia was mysterious, it provoked mysterious actions, it was the source of all suffering not traceable to a single obvious cause.

Come soffrivo per lei e per me, come mi vergognavo di essere uscita dalla sua pancia di persona scontenta.

La voluntad de separarse del Todo es el infierno.

Cómo vamos a traer a un niño a este mundo inhumano?... En un mundo absurdo, inhumano y cruel... traer a un hijo era equivalente a cometer un infanticidio.