Quotes About Suffering

The strange land exhausts him. Death exhausts him. It has fed on him in the way young eager goats suckle their mother, forcing her to lie on her side because she cannot continue. Death has taken everything from him. He has nothing left. He is thousands of kilometres from a village that no longer exists, thousands of kilometres from the empty tombs of the corpses who died only a few feet away from them. He is thousands of days away from a life that was once beautiful and delightful.

Puede que vivir, seguir viviendo, sea saber que lo real no lo es totalmente, puede que sea elegir otra realidad cuando la que hemos conocido adquiere un peso insoportable.

Tiesa gali suraižyti rankas ir palikti tokias žaizdas, su kuriom nebegal?si gyventi, o daugelis m?s? labiausiai ir nori - gyventi. Ir kuo neskausmingiau. Tai žmogiška.

Qu'est-ce que donc que la vie humaine si ce n'est un collier de blessures que l'on porte autour de son cou? A quoi sert d'aller ainsi dans les jours, les mois, les années, toujours plus faible, toujours meurtri?

Qué es la vida sino un collar de heridas que cada hombre se cuelga del cuello?

Even Philip Jones Griffiths, whose portrayal of suffering Vietnamese civilians forms perhaps the best photographic testament of the war, has said, "Your job is to record it all for history. You can't not feel involved, but you have to steel yourself and do your job, take your photographs. That's what you're there for. It's no use crying. You can't focus with tears in your eyes. It's better to do the breaking down later in the darkroom.

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

rarely treated as the torture victims they really are.

The Petition Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep. Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest Your weary ones. Bless Your dying ones. Soothe Your suffering ones. Shield Your joyous ones, and all for Your love's sake. Amen.§

Some of them are growing old, are worn with pitiless waves of fatigue, and are wholly unexpectant of reward in this world.

Suffering is the central fact of life, from his Buddhist viewpoint; it's what we do with it that defines our lives.

Poor as the poor I cling, like them, to humiliating hopes; like them, each day I nearly kill myself just to live.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

The sense comes back to me of life as it always was then, an affliction even blinder because wondrously filled with sweetness.

Magari arrivi che senti la tua solitudine farsi pesante ma è un gioco diverso ed essere soli fa molto più male in mezzo alla gente, allora sì che è doloroso e pungono le ossa e il respiro è davvero brutto, come vivere un trip scannato e troppo lungo.

peut-être n'est-il pas excessif de voir dans le poème significativement intitulé « Héautontimoroumenos » [« celui qui se punit lui-même »]

To subject to scrutiny the mechanisms which render life painful, even untenable, is not to neutralize them; to bring to light contradictions is not to resolve them. But, as skeptical as one might be about the efficacy of the sociological message, we cannot dismiss the effect it can have by allowing sufferers to discover the possible social causes of their suffering and, thus, to be relieved of blame.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

We need a president who doesn't just visit our forgotten communities for rallies but one who lives in them - one who knows the pain and suffering that comes with being unseen and unheard.

Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.

I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.