Quotes About Suffering

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man's soul.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

I'm tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.

humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Finally- no more ruddy show for the folks back home. No pretending it's all beer and skittles and no one ever gets hurt.- Phoenix and Ashes

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.

"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...