"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

Suffering, Pain, Death, Endurance

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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

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"It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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"As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy."

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"It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home."

Kate McGahan, American Author

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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams 'If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!' And somehow we've conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to tell Him to go away, and once upon that time we allowed ourselves to take Him up on that offer."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."

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"It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death."

"As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator."

"When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same."

"It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's."

"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."

"Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams 'If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!' And somehow we've conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to tell Him to go away, and once upon that time we allowed ourselves to take Him up on that offer."

"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."

"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."

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