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Quotes About Suffering

Din suferin?? în suferin??,ajunsese puÈ›in câte puÈ›in la convingerea c? viaÈ›a e o lupt? È™i c? în aceast? lupt? el era cel învins.Nu avea alt? arm? decât ura.
~ Victor Hugo
Misir's first story was about a man who had been out of work for months and was starving. His five children were starving; his wife was having another baby. It was December and the shops were full of food and toys. On Christmas eve the man got a job. Going home that evening, he was knocked down and killed by a motorcar that didn't stop. 'Helluva thing, Mr Biswas said. 'I like the part about the car not stopping.
~ V.S. Naipaul
We couldn't find it in our hearts to find fault with him. We suffered with him.
~ V.S. Naipul
All human suffering concerns each human being
~ Vaclav Havel
Wherever you are, somebody's inflicting horror on another human being. It's just that there are some environments where it's easier to get away with it.
~ Val McDermid
Maybe he would drain Kit's blood in one swift act rather than torture him for days
~ Val McDermid
Kolyma is Auschwitz without the ovens.
~ Varlam Shalamov
Le poète se mourait depuis si longtemps qu'il avait cessé de comprendre que c'était la mort. Parfois, une idée simple et forte se frayait un chemin à travers son cerveau, douloureuse et presque palpable : qu'on lui avait volé le pain qu'il avait mis sous sa tête.
~ Varlam Shalamov
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?
~ Vasily Grossman
What does a woman who has lost her children care about a philosopher's definitions of good and evil? But what if life itself is evil?
~ Vasily Grossman
Your heart is raw and bleeding. Everything is strange and terrible.
~ Vasily Grossman
These camps – with their streets and squares, their hospitals and flea markets, their crematoria and their stadiums – were the expanding cities of a new Europe.
~ Vasily Grossman
I had been imagining what war was like - everything on fire, children crying, cats running about, and when we got to Stalingrad it really turned out to be like that, only more terrible.
~ Vasily Grossman
They were weeping not because a young man was marrying and leaving his mother but because of the incalculable loss and suffering that Armenians have endured, because they couldn't not weep for relatives of theirs who had perished during the massacres of 1915, because no joy in the world could make them forget their nation's grief and their homeland on the other side of Mount Ararat.
~ Vasily Grossman
Che potenza! Lo Stato contro l'uomo... Ora ti porta alle stelle, ora ti scaraventa in fondo a un burrone come se niente fosse».
~ Vasily Grossman
Os campos de concentração tornaram-se cidades da Nova Europa. Cresciam e alargavam-se, com o seu traçado próprio, com as suas ruelas e praças, os seus hospitais, com as suas feiras da ladra, os seus crematórios e estádios.
~ Vasily Grossman
Il peggio della burocrazia è quando in uno Stato operaio sono gli operai a soffrire».
~ Vasily Grossman
Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another's eyes, that the power which had ground them into the mud would continue – even after the war – to oppress both conquered and conquerors.
~ Vasily Grossman
No tsar, nor even the Tatars or German Fascists, ever signed such a decree. The decree meant the death by famine of the peasants of the Ukraine, the Don, and the Kuban. It meant the death of them and their children. Even
~ Vasily Grossman
All the chief knew for sure was that in hard times The People should hold together, and last winter they had not done so. They had inflicted an injustice on themselves and the two old women, and he knew that The People had suffered silently since that day.
~ Velma Wallis
The life is cruel death to me without you.
~ Veronica Franco
To the Dalai Lama, suffering and adversity are the necessary conditions for developing patience and tolerance. These qualities are vital if we want to reduce negative emotions like hatred or anger. When things go well, we have less need to be patient and forgiving. It's only when we come across problems, when we suffer, that we truly learn these virtues. Once we internalize them, compassion flows naturally.
~ Victor Chan
EmoÈ›ia care se arat? a fi suferin??, înceteaz? s? ne mai afecteze de îndat? ce ne form?m o imagine clar? È™i precis? asupra ei.
~ Victor E Frankl
Bir insan?n ac? çekmesi, boÅŸ bir odadaki gaz?n davran???na benzer. BoÅŸ bir odaya belli miktarda gaz verildiÄŸi zaman, oda ne kadar büyük olursa olsun, gaz odan?n tamam?na yay?l?r. Dolay?s?yla insan?n çektiÄŸi ac?n?n 'büyüklüÄŸü' kesinlikle görecelidir.
~ Victor E. Frankl