Quotes About Suffering

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel.

Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.

People die, especially those who would do better to stay alive. Perhaps it's because God needs to make room for the huge amount of jerks with which he enjoys peppering the world.

He always thought becoming a husband and father would be a living Hell, but he had no idea it was going to be so literal.

I drink to drown my pain, but the damned pain learns to swim.

She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.

Our ability to communicate our own feelings, and to pick up the feelings of others and thus to heal fractures in connection, threatens the structures of hierarchy. Feelings of empathy and tender compassion for another's suffering or humanity make it difficult to maintain or justify inequality.

Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.

In a civil war," he said gently, "people forget that they are people. Next they forget anyone else is a person. They forget how to be kind. They learn to hurt. In our wars, they might execute you, but usually they chop hands off, so that you suffer before you die. If you live, you are helpless and must depend on others.

Leaving the Connecticut River March 8, 1704 Temperature 40 degrees They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy.

beaten up, raped, murdered, arsonised—if there was such a word—yet the confidence of the human race that they, their loved ones and acquaintances had personally been granted divine immunity was uncrackable.

Forgiveness is your release from the hell of wanting to know what cannot be known and from wanting to see others suffer because they have hurt you.

As the Buddha taught, the cause of suffering is attachment; the end of attachment will mean the end of suffering.

El perdón es tu renuncia al infierno de querer saber lo que es imposible saber y de querer ver sufrir a otros porque te han herido.

The word deserve causes immeasurable pain.

Una de las mayores fuentes de sufrimiento es traicionarse a uno mismo: sentir o pensar de un modo y actuar de otro, sabiendo perfectamente que estás yendo en contra de ti mismo.

God hates me.

The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.' Jake

Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

and two pounds of fatback a

Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living.

From the hills in the early dawn, Small, thin, mist-wreathed, she came upon him; Hair sodden to the brow, Eyes like agates, Lips apart, tongue flicking at words frozen in her head. Gliding to his feet, She caught his hand and said 'come help me, mister, or she'll be dead.