Quotes About Suffering

I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.

After a while, I hurt so much I didn't feel any difference.

But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. (If you mention anything about me, she said, tell people that.)

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable

I hope you don't suffer forever from keeping love from your heart

I don't have too many lines ingrained upon my face. I look rather pixieish. Sometimes I wish that as I get older my eyes would become lined and take on more character. It just looks like I haven't suffered enough in my life.

When there is great suffering, he said, everyone struggles the same. But when there is peace, no one wants to be the same. The rich no longer share. The less rich envy and steal.

What happened in Nanking, I couldn't claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.

But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died?

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Awareness hurts. Relationships hurts. Life hurts. But to float, to drift, to live in the dream does not hurt.

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by life, really died of it, whether by tuberculosis in the old days, or by neurosis today. I had never thought before of the connection between neurosis and romanticism. Wanting the impossible? Dying when unable to reach it? Not wanting to compromise?

He has made me lucid and sane, and I am suffering cruelly from the loss of my imaginary life.

She had forced the hourglass of pain to turn. They had pursued each other. They had tried to possess each other. They had been slaves of a pattern, and not of love.

I do not hold on now. I live openly, ready for the pain, the separations and losses. I am not holding on. Open and free, sad at moments, but knowing the deep joys are worth all that follows. Deep joys. One must be willing to suffer, to surrender.

Yo estoy rebosante de amor hacia ella. Y al mismo tiempo siento que me estoy muriendo. Nuestro amor sería la muerte. El abrazo de las imaginaciones.

She was blinded, deafened, made senseless.