Quotes About Suffering

what are you supposed to do if you become part of the suffering? You'd be completely lost. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune.

I see the eight of us in the Annexe as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds.

that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding.

Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself. Only

Real slum kids with runny noses.

All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

Asta-i dificultatea timpului nostru: idealul, visele, speranÈ›ele frumoase nici nu apuc? s? apar? bine, È™i numaidecât sunt lovite de realitatea atroce È™i distruse cu totul.

Stundenlang könnte ich von all dem Elend erzählen, das der Krieg mit sich bringt, aber das macht mich nur noch trauriger. Es bleibt uns nichts anderes übrig, als ruhig und gefasst das Ende dieser Notzeit abzuwarten. Die Juden warten und die Christen warten. Der gesamte Erdball wartet...viele warten auf ihren Tod!

He said life would have been much easier if he'd been a Christian or could become one after the war. I asked if he wanted to be baptized, but that wasn't what he meant either. He said he'd never be able to feel like a Christian, but that after the war he'd make sure nobody would know he was Jewish.

At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it. My advice is: Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer. Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.

These poor people are being shipped off to filthiy slaughterhouses like a herd of sick and neglected cattle. But I'll say no more on the subject. My own thoughts give me nightmares!

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.

Besides that, our potatoes have contracted such strange diseases that one out of every two buckets of pommes de terre winds up in the garbage. We entertain ourselves by trying to figure out which disease they've got, and we've reached the conclusion that they suffer from cancer, smallpox and measles. Honestly, being in hiding during the fourth year of the war is no picnic. If only the whole stinking mess were over!

war's greatest evil—the degradation of the human spirit.

Por eso, hemos prohibido a Margot que tosa por las noches, pese a que está muy acatarrada, y le damos codeína en grandes cantidades.

While washing up, Bep began talking to Mother and Mrs van Daan about how discourages she gets. What help did those two offer her? Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse. Do you know what her advice was? That she should think about all the other people in the world who are suffering! How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself?

Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she's probably going to die? What's the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears.

It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

There is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end.

Ich sehe, wie die Welt allmählich in eine Wildnis verwandelt wird. Ich höre den nahenden Donner, der auch uns vernichten wird, ich kann das Leiden von Millionen spüren und dennoch glaube ich, wenn ich zum Himmel blicke, dass alles in Ordnung gehen und auch diese Grausamkeit ein Ende finden wird und dass Ruhe und Frieden wieder einkehren werden.

No nos queda más remedio que esperar con la mayor tranquilidad posible el final de toda esta desgracia. Tanto los judíos como los cristianos están esperando, todo el planeta está esperando, y muchos están esperando la muerte.

In spite of everything I still believe that people r really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, death & misery. I c the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions & yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, & that peace & tranquility will return again.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue