Quotes About Suffering

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

O war! thou son of Hell!

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.