Quotes About Suffering

I think about all the time I spent vigilant, preoccupied, trying to decipher my mother's relationship with Marcus, Lucy's relationship with alcohol. It had never occurred to me that both situations were whatever they were, whether I figured them out or not. And it had certainly never crossed my mind that my reaction—my suffering—was mine: something I had come up with, not something I needed to blame on anyone else.

I didn't want her girlfriend to suffer. But I didn't feel particularly guilty, either. They seemed so far from love, I even thought (stupidly) that the girlfriend might be happy to have Lucy taken off her hands. They had become strangers. Maybe they always had been. And we were magic.

Philosophy can make people sick.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

Evil brings men together.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Two parts, then, of the Plot — Reversal of the Situation and Recognition — turn upon surprises. A third part is the Scene of Suffering. The Scene of Suffering is a destructive or painful action, such as death on the stage, bodily agony, wounds and the like.

Naarmate de stilte langer duurde, nam de pijn toe. De tijd heelt niet alle wonden, ontdekte hij, de tijd scheurt wonden open, zorgt voor vergiftigingen en ontstekingen. De dood maakt misschien een einde aan alle pijn, de tijd laat dat na.

Ik zou of niet meer dood willen of ik zou gewoon willen sterven. Alles wat daartussenin zit vind ik eigenlijk geen oplossing.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzaak ontbreekt'.

For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion–the cause of so much misery and so much poetry–that every man has only one real love in his life.

he suffered from an incurable malady which, it seemed, attacked only homo sapiens among all the intelligent races of the universe. That disease was religious mania. Throughout

THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (Theodore Gericault, 1791–1824)

faktem byÅ'o, i? cierpiaÅ' na nieuleczalnÄ… chorobÄ™, która jak siÄ™ wydawaÅ'o, spoÅ›ród wszystkich inteligentnych ras zamieszkujÄ…cych wszechÅ›wiat atakowaÅ'a tylko gatunki homo sapiens. TÄ… chorobÄ… byÅ'a mania religijna.

The cause of suffering is desire

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

There are some pains that run very deeply, as so that the strongest one accept them without being broken.

No es el dolor que nos infligen el que nos destruye. Es el dolor que dejamos dentro de nuestros corazones el que lo hace.