Quotes About Suffering

But love's a malady without a cure.

The wretched have no friends.

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Life is a useless passion.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

My heart hurts that means I'm alive.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.