Seneca the Younger Quotes

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

The banishment [of Russian Jews], whether by direct decree or by not less certain indirect methods, of so large a number of men and women is not a local question. A decree to leave one's country is in the nature of things an order to enter another—some other.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

The real world is horrible.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.