Quotes About Suffering

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle.

How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!

A magnitude do prazer atinge seu máximo limite na remoção de toda dor.

A dor contínua não dura muito tempo no corpo; pelo contrário, a dor, se extrema, está presente por um curto tempo.

Nenhum prazer é em si mesmo mau, mas as coisas que produzem certos prazeres acarretam aborrecimentos muitas vezes maiores do que os próprios prazeres.

They picked up all of the Jews from our very small town. They froze to death in the railway cars. You could see that? My father was standing watch there. They unloaded them afterward as corpses.

She was trying to free her mother, who had recently been deported to Auschwitz. The lawyer responded bluntly, "You can file a petition, but you will not see your mother again. Auschwitz is an extermination camp." When she received notification of her mother's death a few months later—"died of sepsis and phlegm in Auschwitz"—she considered this plausible. "Later, I found out that it was just one of many death notices issued on that day.

It is also evident that many Germans did not want to know about what was being done to the Jews. Either it did not interest them or they wanted to suppress it from their consciousness. All too often, they were too involved in their own lives and worries, and they became blind to the sufferings of the Jews and deceived themselves about their fate.

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!

Governments had risen and fallen; men and women had worked, had starved, had made speeches, had fought, had been tortured, had died. Hope had come and gone, a fugitive in the scented bosom of illusion. Men had learned to sniff the heady dreamstuff of the soul and wait impassively while the lathes turned the guns for their destruction. And through those years, Dimitrios had lived and breathed and come to terms with his strange gods.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

When things began to go badly wrong between me and Alice, I had a terrible fear that getting attached to an upper-class girl like her was part of a childhood resentment, connected to my feelings about my mother, to bring down women, and that deep inside I was thinking, "Here's an Ormsby-Gore, and I'm going to make her suffer.

I asked Mincha if he would like to be reincarnated as the beautiful scarlet minivet. Mincha paused for a moment and then pointed out how many insects a minivet consumes in its lifetime. "Killing other creatures causes pain in the world. So from a Buddhist perspective, we must say that the minivet is not to be envied." Besides, he related, there are 500 rebirths separating birds and humans, so a bird rebirth would be a big setback from enlightenment. Back

Fericirea nu înseamn? s? te fereÈ™ti de suferin??, ci s? o integrezi în existenÈ›a ta".

To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.

Not that I want to go, of course. I'll be like the rest of you, clinging on desperately and screaming for more morphine.

Of these was the town of Romney, which changed hands fifty-three times throughout the war.

fire applied to the soles of the feet," prolonged sleep deprivation, immersion in cold water, and water forced down the throat to the point of suffocation.

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.

When you actually see the suffering, you must lament. And what have we seen in our cities? Many of us have made the choice to get as far from the inner city as possible—to remove ourselves from the pain and suffering.

what we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.