Quotes About Suffering

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

When people get tired they will say, "Enough is enough. If you want to kill us all, you can kill us all."

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.