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Quotes About Suffering

El deseo de dañar que alberga el terrorista se origina en su propio sufrimiento. Quien ignora el modo de tratar su propio sufrimiento puede tratar de aliviarlo castigando a los demás.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Träume und Märchen waren ihr eigentlicher Lebensinhalt, dachte ich jetzt. Deshalb hat sie sich auch umgebracht, dachte ich, weil ein Mensch, der nur Träume und Märchen sich zu seinem Lebensinhalt gemacht hat, in dieser Welt nicht überleben kann, nicht überleben darf, dachte ich.
~ Thomas Bernhard
A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Seen from across the street, he was like someone to whom the world had long since given notice to quit but who was compelled to stay in it, no longer belonging to it, but unable to leave it.
~ Thomas Bernhard
El arte, ese gran niño nacido muerto.
~ Thomas Bernhard
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
~ Thomas Bernhard
It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness.
~ Thomas Bernhard
We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference
~ Thomas Bernhard
En el fondo, el mundo, desde dondequiera que lo miremos, se compone de insoportabilidad. El mundo nos resulta cada vez más insoportable. El que soportemos lo insoportable es la capacidad para el tormento y el dolor, durante toda la vida, de cada uno, hay en ello algunos elementos irónicos, un idiotismo irracional, y todo lo demás es calumnia.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Dünyaya getirilir, ama yetiÅŸtirilmeyiz. Bizi dünyaya getirenler, yaratt?klar? yeni insan? yok etmek için gereken her türlü beceriksizliÄŸi ve ak?ls?zl??? yapar.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Cu to?ii suferim de megalomanie,ca s? nu trebuiasc? s? pl?tim ve?nica noastr? sibmediocritate.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. All their lives long, as long as their existence allows for this constantly recurring process, so Roithamer.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Ana baba, bizzat kendileri olan felaketi çocuklar?nda sürdürdüklerini çok iyi bilirler çocuk yapmay? ve onlar? yaÅŸam makinesinin içine atmay? haince sürdürürler.
~ Thomas Bernhard
To exist means nothing other than we despair . . .
~ Thomas Bernhard
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
~ Thomas Brooks
one cannot hope to protect mankind from crimes such as those that were visited upon us unless one struggles to brek the cycle of hatred and voilence that invariable leads to ever more suffering by innocent human beings.
~ Thomas Buergenthal
It took me much longer to realize that one cannot hope to protect mankind from crimes such as those that were visited upon us unless one struggles to break the cycle of hatred and violence that invariably leads to ever more suffering by innocent human beings.
~ Thomas Buergenthal
We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.
~ Thomas Cahill
Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.
~ Thomas de Quincey
I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
~ Thomas Hardy
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
~ Thomas Hardy
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness
~ Thomas Hardy
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
~ Thomas Hardy