Quotes About Suffering

Tenía un alma atormentada. Sentía gusto en la humillación y en las labores abyectas, creía que iba a obtener el cielo por el medio terrible de sufrir iniquidades, por eso se complacía limpiando las pústulas de las piernas enfermas de su madre, lavándola, hundiéndose en sus olores y en sus miserias, escrutando su orinal.

Por qué me rechazaste, Indi? Me has hecho sufrir, me humillaste. Yo quería ser el hombre de tu vida; en cambio he tenido que resignarme a ser el hombre de tu muerte.

During the years he spent in Venezuela he thought he had once and for all overcome the solemnity that had been an essential part of his nature from childhood, as though he was in mourning for all the world's suffering, violence and evil. Faced with so many disasters, happiness seemed to him obscene. In love with Roser in the green, warm country of Venezuela, he had vanquished the temptation to cloak himself in sadness.

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

Tu destino será aliviar el dolor ajeno y alcanzar la sabiduría.

Las obras de caridad no podían mitigar la monumental injusticia.

cayó la ceniza como coronación del castigo

La experiencia de ese año de enfermedad le infundió un ardiente deseo de vivir, como si el premio por el sufrimiento fuera haber descubierto la piedra filosofal, la esquiva sustancia de los alquimistas capaz de transformar el plomo en oro y rejuvenecer.

Se había secado las lágrimas, pero había vuelto a la mudez con la resignación de quién nunca ha tenido control sobre su existencia.

When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion. That night I wanted the sky to talk to me.

One man carried his dead son. He thought the boy was still alive. The father was covered with his son's blood, and as he ran he kept saying, I will get you to the hospital, my boy, everything will be fine. Perhaps it was necessary that he cling to false hopes, since they kept him running from harm.

I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Those who searched the day for something to eat were not interested in documents, sensitive or not.

I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.