Quotes About Suffering

The only part of the planet where existence seemed to have some justification is tainted with gangrene.

A poor wretch who feels time, who is its victim, its martyr, who experiences nothing else, who is time at each moment, knows what a metaphysician or a poet divines only by grace of a collapse or a miracle.

Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me

The flayed man as theoretician of detachment...The convulsionary as skeptic...

We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the best camoulaged of all.

Of all the bonds which link us to things, there is not one which fails to slacken and dissolve under the influence of suffering, which frees us from everything except the obsession of ourselves and the sensation of being irrevocably individual. Suffering is solitude hypostatized as essence.

Suffering opens our eyes, helps us to see what we would not have seen otherwise.

Les douleurs sont incompatibles avec le soleil, qui les expose néanmoins à la lumière. Tout ce que nous avons caché dans nos nuits, nos possibilités de soupirs et nos soupirs effectifs, tout cela se répand dans son spectre, ses rayons se brisent, et il gît, aveuglé" par notre douleur, dans le tombeau de sa propre lumière.

I am far from trying to pervert your hopes: life will take care of that. Like everyone else, you will proceed from one forfeiture to the next.

We cherish our anathemas, greedy for what pulverizes us; not for anything would we renounce our own nightmare to which we have assigned as many capital letters as we have known illusions. These illusions have been discredited, like the capital letters, but the nightmare remains, decapitated and naked, and we continue to love it precisely because it is ours and because we do not see what to replace it by.

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j'ai mal.

todos los males de la vida vienen de una «concepción de la vida».

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves.

To suffer is the supreme modality of taking the world seriously.

Gli uomini soffrono dell'avvenire, si precipitano nella vita, fuggono nel tempo, cercano. E niente mi fa più male dei loro occhi indagatori, vani, e tuttavia privi di vanità.

We tell our troubles to someone only to make him suffer, to make him assume them for himself

El ser verdaderamente solitario no es el que ha sido abandonado por los hombres, sino el que sufre en medio de ellos, el que arrastra su desierto en las ferias y despliega sus talentos de leproso sonriente, de comediante de lo irreparable. Los grandes solitarios de antaño eran felices, no conocían el doblez, no tenían nada que ocultar: no se relacionaban más que con su propia soledad…

I am both wound and knife"—that is our absolute, our eternity.

De dou? mii de ani, Isus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.

What is more fruitful than the worst, for the man who knows how to desire it? For it is not suffering which liberates, but the desire to suffer.

All thoughts are alike the moans of a worm stepped on by the angels

Over the gate of our cemeteries should be written: "Nothing Is Tragic. Everything Is Unreal.

What shall we tell the blind woman in Rilke's poem who lamented that 'I can no longer live with the sky upon me'? Would it comfort her if we told her we can no longer live with the earth underneath our feet?

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.