Quotes About Suffering

Neîmplinirea unui om este o sinucidere prin etape.

Zîmbete dureroase care sting soarele...

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable. The great solitaries were happy in the old days, knew nothing of duplicity, had nothing to hide: they conversed only with their own solitude.

Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.

Cînd nu te mai simti deloc om si continui totusi a iubi, contradictia se mareste într-o suferinta nespusa, infernala.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

We tell our troubles to someone only to make him suffer, to make him assume them for himself. If we wanted to win him over, we would admit none but abstract worries, the only kind those who love us are eager to hear.

De câte ori lunec?m pe panta amintirilor, de atâtea ori suferim din cauza vieÈ›ii.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture…

In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.

To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.

The Real gives me asthma.

Ce-i vom raspunde oarbei care se plange in poezia lui Rilke: «nu mai pot trai asa cu cerul pe mine»? Oare am mangaia-o de i-am spune ca nu mai putem trai cu pamantul sub noi?

By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory. . . . Let "desire" be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping

Ever since I was born"—that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable.

Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta. Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu i-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern.

Dau în scris, pentru toat? lumea care va veni dup? mine, c? n-am în ce s? cred pe acest p?mînt ÅŸi c? unica sc?pare este uitarea absolut?. AÅŸ vrea s? uit de tot, s? m? uit complet, s? nu mai ÅŸtiu nimic de mine ÅŸi de lumea aceasta. Adev?ratele confesiuni nu se pot scrie decît cu lacrimi. Dar lacrimile mele ar îneca aceast? lume, precum focul meu interior ar incendia-o.

Prostia este o suferinta nedureroasa a inteligentei.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.

De dou? mii de ani Iisus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.

De ce un nebun vede mai mult? Fiindca nebunia-i suferinta.

Marii singuratici nu s-au retras niciodat? spre a se preg?ti pentru via??, ci pentru a suporta interioriza?i ?i resemna?i lichidarea vie?ii din ei.

De câte ori lunec?m pe partea amintirilor, de atâtea ori suferim din cauza vieÈ›ii.