Quotes About Suffering

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Everyone knows what toothache's like: it's one of those dull pains that just won't go away.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.

I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.