There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. – Martin Luther
Emigration is no longer a solution its a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but theyre knocking on doors that are not open. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman
