Quotes About Suffering

As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering...

Bloody hell," Phillip finally burst out. "If you're going to break my legs, would you just go ahead and do it now?

But the truth was that some things simply hurt too much. And there were some wounds that didn't heal, not even in ten years.

?nsan?n umutsuzlu?unun yaln?zca Tanr?'n?n ismiyle anlat?labilece?i durumlar da vard?r.

It seemed the worst sort of weakness—one with no apparent cause, and unfortunately, one with no clear cure.

it was probably part of the reason she was feeling so miserable. She'd placed her fate and her happiness in the hands of another, and she hated it.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

There are injuries nobody's even around the guy, and the guy's getting hurt.

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.

In every war, innocent people die.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

I can feel myself dying inside.

When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

Abuse isn't just physical or…or sexual, you know." I felt my throat getting tight but I refused to let my pain show on my face. "There is such a thing as mental and emotional abuse too.

Women are prepared to suffer for love; it's written into their birth certificates.

The trouble with any salvation usually is that it's not at all funny.