Quotes About Suffering

What is a health which merely makes people ripe to be damaged, abused, and shot at again?

Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.

If the struggle against nihilism is to succeed, it must be fought out in the heart of each one of us. Everyone shared in the guilt, and there is no one who did not stand in need of the healing powers which are to be found in the realms of suffering.

The man with the wound in the belly, a very young lad, lay in amongst us, stretched out like a cat in the warm rays of the setting sun. He slipped into death with an almost childlike smile on his face. It was a sight that didn't oppress me, but left me with a fraternal feeling for the dying man.

Words had lost their meaning; even war was no longer war. Monteron would tum in his grave if he could hear what they called war nowadays. After all, peace was no longer peace.

No es en las horas más ruidosas cuando el Horror recorre el campo de batalla.

I am the window-cleaner, here to cause the cleansing pain.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

She could sometimes stand the pain of it in her stomach when she knew there was nothing to eat, but when Lov stood in full view taking turnips out of the sack, she could not bear the sight of seeing food no one would let her have.

T]he two fundamental tragedies of human existence, frustrated love and death

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

The wrecked visage I was forced to carry like an unwanted warning to others was to her a known thing, a familiar mask. She seemed to see beneath it something of her own suffering and recovery—the acceptance of a life-changing wound, the will to go on.

You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

I do not much care for childhood; it is a state of terrible vulnerability. It is therefore unnatural and incompatible with human life. Everyone will cut you, strike you, cheat you. Everyone will offer you suffering when goodness should reign. And because children can do nothing for themselves, they need good advocates, good parents. But a good parent is as rare as snow in summer.

What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. xxx You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering. No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

Qué es el cáncer?", pensó. "Pues un atentado terrorista cometido por Dios. Qué hace Dios si no cometer atentados como protesta ante...algo, algo tan elevado y trascendente que ni siquiera alcanzamos a captarlo?

to live is to suffer, to live is to sweat, to live is an ache you can't fucking forget.

To live is to suffer, to live is to sweat, to live is an ache you can't fucking forget. To live is to yearn, to live is to burn, to live is to fucking screw up and wait for the fate to turn.

I found myself in possession of happiness once more, and the evils I had lately suffered, gave me uncommon relish for it.

There's a bumper sticker that says, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Anyone who never gets angry when he sees their friends and loved ones doing things that are harmful to themselves or others has to be pretty numb to the deep sadness of suffering. Anyone who just walks on by when she sees humans being treated like objects needs to take a second look. And a third one.