Quotes About Suffering

Kekesfalva had told me: that Condor had a blind wife whom he had been unable to cure, and had married by way of penance, and that this blind woman, instead of being grateful to him, was a continual plague to him. But he put his hand on my arm with a warm, almost affectionate gesture.

Biz zavall?lar kaderimize raz? olmal?yd?k

Seul le malheur procure une vision large et profonde des réalités de ce monde.

Este estar cerca y a la vez lejos de ella, sin ver ni un reflejo de su pelo, sin oír siquiera una palabra medio ahogada de su voz y, sin embargo, con las almas estrechamente entrelazadas, le resulta un tormento insoportable.

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

Escucha las voces de los pequeños y los débiles, de las mujeres que se entregaron en vano, de las prostitutas riéndose de sus miserias, el rencor tenebroso de quienes están siempre enfermos. A los solitarios, ante quienes jamás se posó una sonrisa. Escucha a los niños que sollozan y se lamentan. Y los gritos impotentes de las que fueron seducidas en secreto.

Ä°çte tutulan gözyaÅŸlar? ak?t?lanlardan daha ac?t?c?d?r.

Mais l'amour ne devient vraiment réel qu'à partir du moment où il cesse de planer, douloureux et sombre, à l'état embryonnaire, au plus profond des entrailles, où il ose se nommer, s'avouer par le souffle et les lèvres.

arkadaÅŸlar?na yazd??? bir mektupta, Sizler yeni bir gün doÄŸumunu bekleyebilirsiniz, benim buna gücüm kalmad?...

Jamás llegará plenamente a saber la humanidad la desgracia que en aquel instante del destino se introdujo por la olvidada Kerkaporta, jamás llegará a saber la humanidad todo lo que se le privó al mundo del espíritu en los saqueos de Roma, de Alejandría y de Bizancio.

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies, that there at least that kindly deceiver, the dream, reveals their form to them as a thing of beauty and symmetry, that at least in the nebulous world of slumber the sufferer can escape the curse to which he is physically chained!

pity is a double-edged weapon. If you don't know how to handle it you had better not touch it, and above all you must steel your heart against it. Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

Se deridi così le storie di chi ha sofferto, vuol dire che non hai sofferto abbastanza.

Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!

Ah but' 'there'll be no butter in hell!

Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi' a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there 'll be no butter in hell!

Bob, he's been crazy for weeks. A big job went wrong and he had to lie low and he got in with a man who put him on to some drug or other—Mary Warner, may be." She lowered her voice over the mobsman's name for the drug marihuana.

Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the world in the eye. Yet, both of these traditions affirm that there is a way out of suffering and ignorance, and that this way out involves an essential, salvific change in consciousness.

fingernails were torn out with pliers.

Look for the copper tablet-box, Undo its bronze lock, Open the door to its secret, Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it, The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.

the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in Western culture is that centuries ago, we were handed the role of sacrificing and suffering for the benefit of the entire society—and we're still doing it.

Perchance, one day you wake in a tub of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let this whole forest of hurt love you?

Yes, what's wooing?" Natalie asked. "It means making a guy realize how completely awesome you are, and that he will die a horrible, suffering death if he doesn't get you as his girlfriend within the next thirty seconds," Allie explained.