Quotes About Suffering

By shredding the remnants of political democracy, these financial institutions lay the basis for carrying the lethal process forward—as long as their victims are willing to suffer in silence.

There is no contradiction here. People live and suffer and endure in the real world of existing society, and any decent person should favor employing what means are available to safeguard and benefit them, even if a long-term goal is to displace these devices and construct preferable alternatives. In

that's what faced the soldiers who were massacring each other in the trenches in the First World War. They were fighting for nothing. They were fighting for the right to destroy each other. And in that kind of circumstance no questions of justice arise

He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.

The baby I could keep came when I was already dead. I was twelve when I was murdered, fourteen when I looked into the Yalu River and, finding no face looking back at me, knew that I was dead. I wanted to let the Yalu's currents carry my body to where it might find my spirit again, but the Japanese soldiers hurried me across the bridge before I could jump.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.

He's been very distracted the last few days." "Has he now?" "And short-tempered." Brenna found her appetite coming back. I'm delighted to hear it. I hope he suffers, the donkey's ass." Brenna went through the rest of her workday whistling, her mood bright and her hands nimble. She supposed it wasn't very charitable of her to take pleasure in the idea of another's unhappiness, but she was human, after all.

People in hell want snowcones.

Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar.

Durerea o lovea în valuri, tari ÅŸi învolburate, biciuind-o ÅŸi sfâÅŸiindu-i inima. În alte zile, valurile erau lente ÅŸi persistente, ameninÅ£ând s?-i înece sufletul.

Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. "Would you look at that?" he said, and passed out.

The air scored his throat on each breath like crushed glass.

swear, being in a hospital's like being in a den of vampires. They never get enough of your blood.

The world ended with bangs and whimpers, with blood and pain, with fear and dread. A cashier handing change to a customer, a mother nursing her child, businessmen gripping hands over a deal—these and so many simple contacts spread death like a poisoned cloud over the world. And billions fell.

In him the rage held cold, an iced fury as the hot licks of blood and madness swirled around him. His brother. Young, innocent, suffering. The life draining out of him, out of a body wracked with pain

Love is the biggest lie. He will fuck you, and use you, and cheat and lie. He will give you pain until you are hollow and empty, until you are dried up and ugly. And dead.

I've been so unhappy without you. Maybe it'll help to know I haven't had a decent night's sleep since you left. It does. Her lips curved when he laughed. I hope you suffered. And I'll remind you of how much you suffered the next time you try to decide what's best for me. He combed his fingers through her hair. I'm what's best for you.

Take your time. It'll give me the opportunity to plan several ways to make you suffer.

The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping

If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.

Bad things will happen to good people, but a good God has for us a good end, for these bad things will bring about good results: "Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2 Corinthians 4:17).

The news consists of exposing the first Noble Truth ('There is suffering'), but makes little reference to the other three. Wisdom concerns itself with all Four Noble Truths equally. It

I want two scars, one on each of my shoulder blades." He shrugged in confusion. "What do you mean?" "Two scars," I repeated, "for where my wings used to be, where my wings were torn away from me.