Quotes About Suffering

untreated pain is a cancer of the soul that can kill you

Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black hole in his belly and from his mouth - surely enough blood for ten men, a sight horrid enough to make God Himself weep - and suddenly, his boots stopped running and his form stilled and then......Death caught him.

When one suffers, all are weakened, but when everyone thrives, we dance.

Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below.

Home was still hellish, afire with the painful realization that no matter how much I loved my parents my love could not fix them

I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me.

The doctors tied me back together with twine... They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots

Now you are burnt-out husks, your spirits haggard, sere, always breeding over your wanderings long and hard, your hearts never lifting with any joy - you've suffered far too much.

There is one good thing about not eating," I said. "What would that be?" Greenlaw asked. "We've got nothing to fart with.

Slaves were people of African descent who were not paid for their work and had to do everything demanded by the person who owned them. They had no rights and little protection from cruel treatment and inhumane living conditions. Slaves were not allowed to marry and children were frequently sold away from their parents.

12. I wasn't just encased in hardening concrete up to my chin; it was pouring down my throat. I was in a race to see if I would die from the outside in or the inside out.

Mom, picking out bits of grain from roll: You're alive because of Dr. Parker. Lia, bleeding where they can't see: Stop exaggerating.

Bitter cups of coffee, my life and my trip measured out like Prufrock's in coffee spoons, clothes sweaty, smelly, bra strap digging into flesh, eyes reddened, gritty as if circled with sand, sour taste in mouth, intermittent heartburn

There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

we who have travelled much and loved much: we who have -- I will not say suffered for we have always recognized through suffering our own self-sufficiency -- only we appreciate the complexities of tenderness, and understand how narrowly love and friendship are related

El dolor mismo es el único elemento de la memoria; porque el placer termina en sí mismo

she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.

A poem with its throat cut from ear to ear. The Daily Mirror

Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.