Quotes About Suffering

I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.

For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

One who cannot benefit by patience will die in grief.

When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.

I would rather die and to go hell than wake up one day and find myself an inmate in that guesthouse of gone minds, gone things, bad carpets, furniture that needs permission.

across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other.

Now that he's up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people's hearts and minds.

I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins) I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in) I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison

When Johnnie went to France. Such a tame ending To a great romance-- Two lonely women With nothing much to do But get to know each other; She did and I did, too. Mornings at the Rectory, Learning how to roll Bandages, and always Saving light and coal. Oh, that house was bitter As winter closed in, In spite of heavy stockings And woolen next the skin. I was cold and wretched, And never unaware Of John more cold and wretched In a trench out there.

Anguish is the universal language

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of '78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.

If we could live without suffering, we'd find no peace in heaven.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Abolish these categories of pain (or is it love) Let it all be one pain Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.

And if you're referring to your anguish, it's just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details of your life and find another one.

You're too lazy, passive to suffer. I do that for you too.

I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.

All my life Since I was 10 I've been waiting to be in this hell here with you All I've ever wanted And still do

All my life, since I was ten, I've been waiting to be in this hell here with you; all I've ever wanted, and still do.

though suffering rises up and shames me.

I only remember that it all hurt.

Bodiless we don't suffer: in a dream we aren't hungry, don't mourn you.

I'm sickened by all the suffering I'm aware of.