Quotes About Suffering

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.

Llevaba la pobreza colgada del cuello como una piedra.

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

A veces, la realidad es solo dolor, y para huir de ese dolor, la mente tiene que abandonar la realidad.

Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.

She felt flat and scraped as an old hide. Dry as paper written on both sides.

It's not their fault that the world is full of hard choices and hunger and loneliness," she said. "What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind." – Patrick Rothfuss.

when she felt around inside herself she found she had no crying left. She was full of broken glass and burrs.

There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow, it hides itself in insanity. There are times when reality is nothing but pain. And to escape that pain, the mind must leave reality behind.

The old man was going nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

You've deduced a universal truth: things are usually unfair.

Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live.

sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Many memories are simply painful, and there's no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

I won't have any part of it. Not for the world. Trying to help right now would be like trying to put out a fire with my hands. Painful, and with no real results.

El sueño nos ofrece un refugio del mundo y de todo su dolor. El sueño marca el paso del tiempo y nos proporciona distancia de las cosas que nos han hecho daño.

There were tears once or twice. But not for the men she had lost or the men she had left. They were quiet tears for herself, because there was something inside her that was badly hurt. I couldnt tell what it was and didnt dare to ask. Instead I simply said what I could to take the pain away and helped her shut her eyes against the world.

So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.

y en algunos sitios era tal la desesperación que las madres ya no lograban reunir suficiente esperanza para ponerles nombres a sus hijos.