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Quotes About Suffering

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Plus, you've managed—in our short three years together—to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He wanted to go. He hurt so much. He wanted it all to end, to go away. Everything. He just wanted it to stop.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Indeed, the path to a life without empathy is a long and painful one, full of bartered humanity sold at a steep discount.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There always seemed to be a reason Kaladin survived when those he'd tried to help died. Some men might have seen that as a blessing, but he saw it as an ironic kind of torment.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You cannot have my pain.
~ Brandon Sanderson
No, I lost every one," Hesho said. "The rest of the assembly voted unanimously against my desires in each matter. What rotten luck! Ah, the indignities you must suffer when your people are a true democracy, and not a shadow dictatorship ruled by an ancestral line of kings. Right?" The other kitsen flying past raised a cheer for democracy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The life of a person is more than the chaos of it's passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.
~ Brandon Sanderson
An existence of agony is better than no existence at all
~ Brandon Sanderson
Which was more potent? The pain of memory, or the pain of forgetting? He
~ Brandon Sanderson
La suciedad no tendría que haberse amontonado tan rápidamente, con con tan pocos habitantes, la mayoría de los cuales estaban incapacitados. Era como si Elantris estuviera empeñada en morir, una ciudad suicida».
~ Brandon Sanderson
What is the good of faith if this is the result? A city full of people misinterpreting their god's commands? A world of ash and pain and death and sorrow?
~ Brandon Sanderson
La cuestión", respondió ella, "no es si amarás, sufrirás, soñarás y morirás. Es qué amarás, por qué sufrirás, cuándo soñarás y cómo morirás. Esas son tus elecciones. No puedes elegir la destinación, solo el camino".
~ Brandon Sanderson
It won't be cold in the parlor," she said. "Or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, maybe it will. But everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
~ Brandon Sanderson
People suffered when the truth became a commodity to be speculated upon.
~ Brandon Sanderson
before thousands upon thousands of people suffer.
~ Brandon Sanderson
And so, untold millions screamed out in pain, and then were suddenly silenced. I hope you're happy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The empire simply was. The people suffered its rule because they were comfortable with its little tyrannies. Corruption was inevitable. You lived with it. It was either that or accept the chaos of the unknown.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Envejecer era en realidad sufrir la traición definitiva, la del propio cuerpo contra uno mismo.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Making something where nothing existed. Creating a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish. Bowing one's back before the Almighty, and forming humility from the empty pride of a human life.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Fighting was not about glory, but about men lying on the ground screaming and thrashing, tangled in their own viscera
~ Brandon Sanderson
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...
~ Brandon Sanderson
I have nothing left to give, I have found the perfect end, you were made to make it hurt, dissapear into the dirt
~ Breaking Benjamin
Dear agony, just let go of me, suffer slowly, is this the way it's gotta be?
~ Breaking Benjamin