Quotes About Suffering

And these children will never talk of anything else either. They'll think it was wonderful and glorious to fight the Yankees and come home blind and crippled—or not come home at all. They all like to remember the war, to talk about it. But I don't. I don't even like to think about it. I'd forget it all if I could—oh, if I only could!

You are pretty healthy, and maybe there isn't any hell after all. Oh, but there is Rhett! You know there is! I know there is but it's right here on earth. Not after we die. There's nothing after we die, Scarlett. You are having your hell now.

Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold. Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.

Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why All?h is with the broken hearted.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.