Quotes About Suffering

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

I would fain die a dry death.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.