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Quotes About Suffering

GENNARO Paise distrutte, creature sperze, fucilazione… E quanta muorte… 'E lloro e 'e nuoste… E quante n'aggio viste… (Atterrito dalla visione che gli ritorna alla memoria più viva con tutti i suoi particolari) 'E muorte so' tutte eguale…»
~ Eduardo De Filippo
La brevedad o la prolongación de la vida de un ser humano depende sobre todo del caudal de dolor que esa persona se ve obligada a soportar.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
~ Edvard Munch
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
~ Edvard Munch
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings.
~ Edvard Munch
ljubav je bozhansko osecanje i svaka nova zaljubljenost obavezno u sebi nosi i senku zhalosti zbog delica sopstvenog ja koje se daruje objektu strasti.
~ Edvard Munch
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
~ Edvard Munch
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.
~ Edward Abbey
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.
~ Edward Abbey
And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?
~ Edward Bellamy
If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile...
~ Edward Bond
So I learned not only that your loved one may be forbidden you, given away to someone else, but also that though you love someone they may run from you, and you may open your arms but they shall not come in.
~ Edward Carey
Elisabeth hungered after pain, other people's pain to dull her own; the pain of those poor everyday people fed her life. She had become addicted to misery.
~ Edward Carey
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
~ Edward Chapin
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
~ Edward Dahlberg
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.
~ Edward Dahlberg
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
~ Anonymous
Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
~ Anonymous
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
~ Anonymous
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
~ Anonymous
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
~ Anonymous
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
~ Anonymous
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
~ Anonymous
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
~ Anonymous