Unbearable Pain Quotes

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

For now they kill me with a living death.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Merely to call for absolute victory will produce nothing. In order to make the divine land … imperishable, we must bear the unbearable.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

It's still hard for me to think about Sept. 11 sometimes. I'm still angry. It's hard to watch my daughters, Celia and Zaya, grow up and know they'll never see their father. They'll always be 9/11 girls, and I wish I could shield them from that. Everyone has an immediate pity for them. It is a sad thing, but the girls are also so happy.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.