Quotes About Suffering

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!