Read quote“It’s better to feel the pain than to hide pain.”
About Suffering
Pain, adversity, hardship, and the human response to them.
The collection
Words on Suffering
Read quote“It's hard to watch an athlete almost destroyed.”
Read quote“Never in human history have so many died for so little reason.”
Read quote“Quero ensinar aos que padecem como é que se pode esperar com serenidade o desenlace da morte.”
Read quote“O fado é uma queixa e nós temos muita razão de nos queixarmos... vida fora.”
Read quote“I have no land to live in, / Only thorns piercing my heart,”
Read quote“There is no room yet, therefore, for factual and objective analysis of the recent past and of the responsibility in general for the suffering caused to the neighboring countries and to the Serbian people itself.”
Read quote“I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is my duty to voice the sufferings of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.”
Read quote“I looked around me, and my soul was wounded with the suffering of men.”
Read quote“What unfolded in Lebanon last week was something dystopian, but it wasn’t a movie. It affected real people’s lives.”
Read quote“Me interesa muchísimo, pero yo lo que quisiera es un libro que pusiera en relieve las miserias de nuestra sociedad contemporánea.”
Read quote“I’m not willing to trample on people that have less autonomy over their bodies and less safety in the world than me in order to ‘protect myself’.””
Read quote“Hay que hacer música. Para no caer en el agobio.”
Read quote“All of us are Filipinos not only because we are brothers in blood—but because we are all brothers in tears.”
Read quote“Pero perseguir la verdad me parece una cosa bastante agotadora e inasible.”
Read quote“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war.”
Read quote“I looked about me — my soul was stung by the sufferings of humanity.”
Read quote“我が国十何万の精神病者は実にこの病を受けたるの不幸のほかに、この国に生まれたるの不幸を重ねるものというべし”
Read quote“There is nothing I hope to spare.”
Read quote“Envelhecer é ruim para qualquer mulher, mas, para quem foi muito bonita, é pior ainda.”
Featured voices
