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Quotes About Suffering

An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.
~ George Lopez
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
~ Russell Simmons
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
~ Sam Abell
You want something to drink?" – Nick "Human blood would be fabulous. But since I doubt you're donating, let me suffer for a minute longer." – Caleb
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
~ Sophocles
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.
~ Steve Toltz
If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!
~ Swami Vivekananda
You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.
~ Terry McMillan
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.
~ Henri Nouwen
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
~ Hermann Hesse
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
~ Iris Dement
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —" "THEN — I — DON'T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!" Harry roared.
~ J. K. Rowling
How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?
~ Laini Taylor
I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.
~ Richard Rohr
When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.
~ Shannon L. Alder
When what you value and dream about doesn't match the life you are living, you have pain.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
~ Douglas MacArthur
All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.
~ Obafemi Awolowo
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
~ Rose O'Neal Greenhow