Strange Meeting Suffering Quotes

A groaning sleep isn't exactly a selling point for mattresses. Why? Because it's a sign you're totally tortured and getting the worst sleep ever. These guys are clearly suffering (and it's not from a lumpy mattress).

This guy is suffering so badly that it's clearly visible to our speaker just upon first glance. He's got to be feeling bad to be spotted so easily. This is where Owen sneaks in the ole suffering of Christ image that we talked about in our "Symbols, Imagery, and Wordplay" section. Even though he's clearly pained, he's raising his hands in blessing and managing to find compassion for another sucker in a bad situation (speaker number one).

This soldier is not getting an endorsement deal from Crest anytime soon. When your smile is described as "dead" you know you're displaying your suffering pretty clearly.

Nothing says suffering like having your facial composition being 100% fear. There's no hiding the suffering and trauma this soldier has endured.

Speaker number two is admitting outright that not only is he suffering from what he experienced in the war, but he's suffering because he knows all of the good stuff in life that he'll never get a chance to experience. It's a suffering of absence—sort of like missing someone you love and knowing you'll never be together again.

Sure there was plenty of physical suffering in war, but Owen wants to make sure we all know how much mental and emotional anguish there was, too. Many of the physical wounds would eventually heal, but there is no bandage that would work to heal that kind of emotional suffering.