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Quotes About Suffering

When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky!
~ Munia Khan
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~ Eli Khamarov
Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.
~ Dash Shaw, BodyWorld
By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.
~ Guru Arjan Dev
It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.
~ David Levithan, Invisibility
Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Half awake and almost dead. But yet we were breathing and yet we were waiting...Waiting for a miracle to happen.
~ M.L van de Weetering
In the grueling light that passed for day...
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
~ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
~ T. J. Miller
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
~ Aldous Huxley
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
~ Jackson Pearce, Fathomless
...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.
~ Anonymous
Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies.
~ Yahia Kareem
I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.
~ Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
Things I hate comes with a pain.
~ Nadair Desmar
Suffering is a part of real life lesson.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
In the end, what we gain is pain!
~ HarryKrishna
I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life.
~ Janet Fitch
There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.
~ Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...
~ Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories