Quotes About Suffering

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.