Quotes About Suffering

The television set groaned and wept blood when they turned it on.

Tutto passa. Le sofferenze, i tormenti, il sangue, la fame e la pestilenza. La spada sparirà, e le stelle invece rimarranno, quando anche le ombre dei nostri corpi e delle nostre azioni più non saranno sulla terra. Non esiste uomo che non lo sappia. Perché allora non vogliamo rivolgere il nostro sguardo alle stelle?

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

I am not so shocked by savages who roast and eat the bodies of their dead as by those who torture and persecute the living.

No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?

Dünyan?n birden düzeleceÄŸi yoktur; ama insan kendini s?kan ÅŸey kar??s?nda o kadar sab?rs?zd?r ki, her ne pahas?na olursa olsun ondan kurtulmak ister. Binlerce örnek de gösteriyor ki dünya böyle çabuk ÅŸifa aramaktan hep zarar görür: halinde genel bir iyileÅŸme olmad?kça, bir an dertten kurtulmas? iyileÅŸmesi demek deÄŸildir.

Pain compels even the innocent to lie.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another

It's higher consciousness that causes all our griefs and tortures, don't you think?

Utopía del pudor judicial: quitar la existencia evitando sentir el daño, privar de todos los derechos sin hacer sufrir, imponer penas liberadas de dolor.

The criticism that was often levelled at the penitentiary system in the early nineteenth century (imprisonment is not a sufficient punishment: prisoners are less hungry, less cold, less deprived in general than many poor people or even workers) suggests a postulate that was never explicitly denied: it is just that a condemned man should suffer physically more than other men. It is difficult to dissociate punishment from additional physical pain. What would a non-corporal punishment be?

Her y?l biraz daha içler ac?s? bir ÅŸekilde çürüyen bir tenin seyrine güçsüz ve altüst olmuÅŸ bir ÅŸekilde ÅŸahitlik ettiÄŸini bildiÄŸimiz Bataille, tene en ÅŸiddetli ve en ac?mas?z kaderi biçen metinleri meditasyon diye seçer.

What does it mean to be human? What are we doing here on this planet? What should we do with all the beauty and the horror? I spent a year as a hospice chaplain and what did I learn? That everyone wants to live. Even if just to gaze out a window at the sky.

She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the pain, the emptiness - over. And she had said nothing then. Nothing. Nor had she crawled into her room and swallowed her mother's pills, or crawled into her bath and opened up her own wrists. As if death were somehow personal. As if death were somehow an enemy that could be faced and stared down, she would not give it the satisfaction of seeing how badly it had hurt her. Again.

My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.

Finally, the basic principles of transhumanism, that humanity should not have to endure "nasty, brutish, and short" lives, when science can relieve suffering by enhancing the human race, were first clearly laid out by Julian Huxley in 1957.

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.