Quotes About Suffering

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

William Tecumseh Sherman

A hospital alone shows what war is.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back.

War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.

There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.