pain Quotes

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.