Quotes About Suffering

I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women

Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.

And this I hate - not men nor flag nor race But only War with its wild grinning face.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

The root of suffering is attachment

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.