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Quotes About Suffering

Cómo es posible que esta gente viva tranquilamente cuando el sufrimiento a su alrededor es tan evidente?
~ Christopher Paolini
they cannot be as painful as losing my home and my father was.
~ Christopher Paolini
I do not want him to die. No elf does. However, if every waking moment is a torment to him, then won't it be better for him to seek release?" Neither
~ Christopher Paolini
always so; those closest to the heart cause the most pain. Thou will have no dowry from me, snake
~ Christopher Paolini
As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-from the bowlike curve of his collarbones to the hollow saddle of his hips, where his stomach hung like an empty waterskin. His lips puckered and drew back farther than they were intended to over his yellow teeth, baring them in a grisly snarl, while his eyeballs deflated as if they were engorged ticks being squished empty of blood, and the surrounding flesh sank inward.
~ Christopher Paolini
en caso de que cada instante de su vida se convirtiera en un tormento para él, ¿no sería mejor que buscara el descanso?
~ Christopher Paolini
The happiness of two beings might be a small thing when compared with the immensity of the universe, but what, ultimately, was more important? Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn-that was the closest any person might come to heaven.
~ Christopher Paolini
Love can be a terrible curse
~ Christopher Paolini
Ach , life is a strange cruel journey sometimes
~ Christopher Paolini
The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe in.
~ Christopher Paolini
Pain is pain,' she said. 'It needs no description.
~ Christopher Paolini
Pain was pain, and it insisted on making itself known.
~ Christopher Paolini
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe
~ Christopher Paolini
Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.
~ Christopher Pike
When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.
~ Christopher Pike
Victim: I don't want to die! Sita: Then you should never have been born
~ Christopher Pike
Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth.
~ Christopher Pike
Sharon dropped to her knees and reached her hand over the edge. The gesture was supposed to be a sign of support. But she realized then that it was useless. His insanity was like the stream beneath the ground. It only flowed in one direction, into deeper and deeper darkness. She was going to lose him.
~ Christopher Pike
You're in love with your image of Linda. Mr. Green is in love with his image of Jesus. Both of your images have little to do with reality. Both of you are making yourselves miserable.' 'That's not fair, comparing me to him. You don't see me hammering nails in people.' 'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands.
~ Christopher Pike
But desperate people often forget their religion when they need it most.
~ Christopher Pike
The murder program accelerated in the spring of 1943. German troops entered the Warsaw ghetto and killed thousands of Jews in street fighting. In the south, the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews from Salonika to Auschwitz. In the north, they deported Dutch Jews to Sobibor, gassing about 34,000 people there as they arrived. The SS also arranged a special transport for 3,000 Jewish mothers and children from the Netherlands; they murdered all of them.11
~ Christopher Simpson
Wolff was successful in that effort and wrote of his "special joy (besondere Freude) now that five thousand members of the Chosen People are going to Treblinka every day.
~ Christopher Simpson
Who is this that cometh from Edom? He has trodden the wine-press alone.
~ TS Eliot
It's bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga