Quotes About Suffering

People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability of suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror, and nothing but horror.

When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway.

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror and nothing but horror. Paul was pleased that man was gradually covering the whole earth with concrete. It was as if he were watching a cruel murderess being walled up.

Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts.

The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.

all languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross

Nel vivere non c'è alcuna felicità. Vivere: portare il proprio io dolente per il mondo. Ma essere, Essere è felicità. Essere: trasformarsi in una fontana, in una vasca di pietra, nella quale l'universo cade come una tiepida pioggia.

Ä°nsanlar genellikle dertlerinden kurtulmak için geleceÄŸe kaçarlar; zaman?n yoluna düÅŸsel bir çizgi çeker, bu çizginin ötesinde o anki dert ve s?k?nt?lar?n?n sona ereceÄŸini san?rlar.

In death, Franz at last belonged to his wife. He belonged to her as he had never belonged to her before. Marie-Claude took care of everything: she saw to the funeral, sent out announcements, bought the wreaths, and had a black dress made - a wedding dress, in reality. Yes, a husband's funeral is a wife's true wedding! The climax of her life's work! The reward of her sufferings!

Çünkü herkes ilgisiz bir evren içinde görülüp iÅŸitilmeden yokolup gideceÄŸi düÅŸüncesiyle ac? çekmektedir. Bu yüzden, daha vakit varken, kendisini sözcüklerden oluÅŸan bir evrene dönüÅŸtürmek ister.

In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell.

No hay nada más pesado que la compasión. Ni siquiera el propio dolor es tan pesado como el dolor sentido con alguien, por alguien, para alguien, multiplicado por la imaginación, prolongado en mil ecos.

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot - he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza's dream was something he could not endure.

Staru gospodu lako je prepoznati po tome Å¡to se hvale pretrpljenim patnjama i prave od njih muzej u koji pozivaju svoje goste.

Erotizam je komercijalno dvosmislen, jer premda svi priželjkuju erotski život, svi ga tako?er mrze kao uzrok svojih nesre?a, frustracija, zavisti, kompleksa, patnji.

Le malade souffre de la déformation masochiste de sa mémoire

in languages that derive from Latin compassion means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

Todas as toneladas de ferro dos tanques russos nada eram comparadas com aquele peso. Não há nada mais pesado do que a compaixão. Nem a nossa própria dor é tão pesada com a dor co-sentida com outro, por outro, no lugar de outro, multiplicada pela imaginação, prolongada em centenas de ecos.