“Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.” IfsMenShouldSufferingCultureAnimalTownsKillingSatisfiedKilling Each Other Author:Compay Segundo
“Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.” YearsSufferingCitiesCasesBuiltRiversTownsAgreeHeavySpotsSicknessRemoveOutletsUnhealthyStagnantPetitionsVaporMarshes Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.” KnowsMindI CanEndsBodyRealityRememberMovingYoungSufferingFunctionTownsPhenomenonBereavementFundamentalistTenantsMoving OutNihilistTenements Book:William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
“The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.” FirstsMeanTwoHomeEyeWantedTogetherMotherSufferingFatherLeftHoursHurtCitiesMistakeFeetWalkingTownsShoesFocusedHis Eyes Author:Milan Kundera
“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.” WayLooksMeanLongStillsMatterSufferingBreakAliveThousandRootsTownsMetaphorCarefulShipsGrassStringsBe CarefulYou ChooseShortage Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.” ChildrenEyeKidsSufferingTownsTinyAgony Author:Stephenie Meyer
“See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.” PeopleSaidWholeSufferingDifferencesLossTownsConsole Author:Michael J. Sullivan
“We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.” MatterSufferingTownsMetaphorCarefulBe CarefulYou ChooseShortage Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns