Quotes About Suffering

How many have died that I might live?And who has died that I might live?

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

life hurts a lot more than death

Life may suck but death is worse.

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

Malady of mortality

It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.