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Quotes About Suffering

He tries to think of other things, other places, but his mind keeps being drawn back to this place. Everyone's so close around him now. Yellow figures lean all around him like flower petals closing in. He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
~ Neal Shusterman
Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.
~ Neal Shusterman
it occurs to me that all scarecrows look as if they've been crucified.
~ Neal Shusterman
Mi mayor deseo para la humanidad no es la paz ni la comodidad ni la alegría. Es que todavía sigamos muriendo un poco por dentro cada vez que seamos testigos de la muerte
~ Neal Shusterman
Dying was easy. A paper cut? That would be annoying.
~ Neal Shusterman
I stand behind my decision. You see yourself as failing- but that's not what I see. Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good- but we are all tested in this life, Connor. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
~ Neal Shusterman
We are all tested in this life. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
~ Neal Shusterman
Suffering erased was the same as no suffering at all.
~ Neal Shusterman
What must it be like to go through the motions of life, yet not be alive? Keaton knows he himself lives, because he has compassion for this poor unfortunate creature before him. A creature that is doomed to be nothing more than a collection of parts.
~ Neal Shusterman
What person in their right mind would want to feel that kind of pain?" "Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.'
~ Neal Shusterman
All her hopes of a future have been torn away from her again-- and having those hopes, even briefly, makes this far more painful than not having had them at all.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sin la amenaza del sufrimiento no podemos experimentar la verdadera felicidad.
~ Neal Shusterman
very painful comedy of errors
~ Neal Shusterman
Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.
~ Neal Shusterman
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~ Neal Shusterman
I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Each day we take another step to hell, Descending through the stench, unhorrified
~ Charles Baudelaire
Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.
~ Charles Baudelaire
the Devil's hand directs our every move the things we loathed become the things we love; day by day we drop through stinking shades quite undeterred on our descent to Hell.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Only when we drink poison are we well.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Dans ce trou noir ou lumineux vit la vie, rêve la vie, souffre la vie.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Do you know that high fever which invades us in our cold suffering, that aching for a land we do not know, that anguish of curiosity? There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still, where fantasy has built and adorned a western China, where life is sweet to breathe, where happiness is wed to silence. That is where to live, that is where to die! - Invitation to a Voyage
~ Charles Baudelaire
Am c?utat uitarea-n iubire: ce folos! C?ci dragostea mi-e numai un pat cu spini, f?cut S? dea acestor fete cumplite de b?ut!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
~ Charles Baudelaire