Quotes About Suffering

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

Humans are the most inhumane of all creatures.

Those with a perpetual victim mindset tend to create the situations from which they suffer.

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

We eat breads, and we eat it with butter.While some brothers, starve for water and leave near the gutter.

A man is in one piece until love finds its way to his heart ... it splits him in half ... vital to have both halves, yet excruciating to keep them glued together

Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.

Her maktul katilinde yaÅŸamaya devam eder.

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering, " than to say, "This landscape is ugly.

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...

Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/ I was me but now he's gone/

Does God really make friendly bets with Satan? Why would a just God kill a man's children in order to score debating points? Was Job tested beyond what a human being can endure? When does the action in Job occur? Why did God bother to appear to Job in the first place if He wasn't going to answer his questions? And just where is the Land of Uz? These

Job's Comforters believe that they understand why God has made Job suffer. Job does not understand why he suffers, but he thinks he should be able to find out. He

We don't have to convince the world that we're suffering to convince them that we're artists," Hart said, jabbing at Black Flag's angst-ridden style. "There are those that choose to take that course. There's nothing wrong with being happy.

detested the missionaries who made people "permanently miserable by telling them…how blissful a place heaven is, and [how] nearly impossible it is to get there.

Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted the iron pointed stake into the lower termination of the vertebrae, and thence forced it up near his back bone, until it appeared between the shoulders, avoiding the vital parts. The stake was then raised in the air and the poor sufferer exposed to the view of the other slaves, writhing in…insupportable agony.

The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place.

Sammy felt...that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving. He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.

War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs.

He didn't say anything. He lay there with his eyes closed for a long time after that, sculling along the surface of the sea of pain a little nearer to his story's end or maybe, if that great eschatologist Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun turned out to be right, toward story on the opposite shore that was waiting to begin.

In Egypt, in Shushan, in the time of Judah Maccabee, God had intervened to deliver us with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; big deal. When we were sent to the ovens, God had sat with His outstretched thumb up His mighty ass and let us burn.

Sammy felt, that morning, with his ribs bruised and a wan flavor of chlorine at the back of his mouth, that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.