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Quotes About Suffering

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?
~ Laini Taylor
Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.
~ Laini Taylor
It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
~ Pema Chodron
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
~ Pliny the Elder
An evil life is a kind of death.
~ Ovid
Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.
~ Robert Scheer
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
~ William Butler Yeats
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
~ William Godwin
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
~ William Penn
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
~ William S. Burroughs
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.
~ William Shakespeare
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
~ Adyashanti
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
~ Albert Camus
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
~ Albert Camus
All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.
~ Alec Baldwin
Liberty is life; slavery is death.
~ Alexandre Vinet
But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.
~ Angela Thirkell
When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
~ Angelina Jolie
It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.
~ Angelina Jolie
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.
~ Ann Hood
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
~ Anton Chekhov
The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
~ Beatrice Sparks