Quotes About Suffering

Now I'm entirely without hope, and one dies of that more quickly than of cancer

Ciò che i Nazisti hanno fatto agli Ebrei, gli umani lo stanno facendo agli animali

Come sempre, quando mi succede qualcosa di propizio, chiesi al mio io interiore se ero finalmente felice. Ma mantenne un silenzio diplomatico. Pareva che avessi un grande talento nel soffrire, ma che nessun risultato potesse mai soddisfarmi

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

Going around in a sulk will get you nowhere. Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es optativo.»

There is no light without shadows, just as there is no happiness without pain.

There is no worse suffering than to love with fear

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten. Se acostumbran desde temprano a considerar al compañero como un hijo bobalicón, a quien perdonan graves defectos, desde ebriedad hasta violencia doméstica, porque es hombre.

In all social classes except the most privileged, abnegation and hard work are considered the supreme female virtues; a spirit of sacrifice is a question of honor: the more one suffers for family, the prouder one feels. Women are used to thinking of their mate as a foolish child whose every serious fault, from drunkenness to domestic violence, they forgive . . . because he's a man.

His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and the husband fate had dealt her

mientras más profunda la herida más privado era el dolor.

Un dolor así, dolor del alma, no se quita con remedios, terapia o vacaciones; un dolor así se sufre, simplemente, a fondo, sin atenuantes, como debe ser

She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering in the hold of the ship, losing her baby, and facing a future of total uncertainty.

And along the streets the blood of the children flowed simply, like the blood of children…Come and see the blood in the streets, come and see the blood in the streets.

The path to addiction is straight and well paved;

Since we're going to suffer, let's clench our teeth," she said. Pain like that, pain of the soul, does not go away with remedies, therapy, or vacations; you simply endure it deep down, fully, as you should. I would have done well to follow my Nini's example, instead of denying that I was suffering and stifling the howl that was stuck in my chest.

La riqueza envilece el alma, complica la existencia y engendra infelicidad, sostenía.