Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Men, Suffering, Doe

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.222, Penguin

• Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love You, Suffering, Poor

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.24, A&C Black

• Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.227, A&C Black

• Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dream, Mean, Creating

• If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Suffering, Poor, Currency

• Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking, Suffering, Groups

• People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own thing and there is so much suffering on a mass scale around the world that you kind of become fatalistic. You might think suffering is inevitable, you kind of lose your sense of moral urgency. But there is always something you can do for someone in the world.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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