Quotes About Suffering

É uma vergonha para um homem almejar uma longa vida, se não conseguir libertar-se dos seus males.

Tell me, why do you love misery so much?

How do you measure misery?

Enter OEDIPUS, blinded, led by a boy.

Does it hurt in your ears, sir, or in your soul?

what dark power leapt beyond all bounds, beyond belief, to crush your wretched life?

Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele. (warm for the cold does your soul burn) - Ismene to Antigone

Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele.

O gra?ani otadžbine Tebe, evo Edipa, znalca ?udesne zagonetke i prvog ?oveka, ?iju sre?u niko nije gledao bez zavisti! Gledajte u kakav ponor sudbe grozne pade on! Zato nikog, dan dok onaj poslednji ne do?eka, ne?u proslavljati kao sre?na, pre no doplovi kraju veka svog a nikakav ne pogodi ga jad.

inside me I'm dying

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much to say, May new sufferings torment your soul.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.

What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.

Kazna odgovara krivici: da nam bude uskra?eno svako zadovoljstvo življenja, da smo dovedeni do najvišeg stepena odvratnosti prema životu.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a deep anguish, but whose lips are so fashioned that the moans and cries which pass over them are transformed into ravishing music….And men crowd about the poet and say to him, 'Sing for us soon again'- which is as much to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul, but may your lips be fashioned as before; for the cries would only distress us, but the music, the music is delightful.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.