Quotes About Suffering

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

She's hiding and no one else sees. She's dying and no one else notices.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.