Quotes About Suffering

I have excellent hopes, he said. I have ached for you for six years, and you have suffered too, I know. I love you now as I have from the beginning, and you love me. I believe we have a chance for a good marriage.

Despair, he remembered now from an earlier occasion, could hurt as keenly as an open knife wound.

My life came to an end the day I left you, he whispered fiercely. I have lived in hell since then. I do not need to die, Becky. Nothing could be worse than what I have lived. If you wished to see me punished, know that your wish has been granted a thousandfold.

He must not know that this separation would be more painful to her than it would be to him.

A friendship that was agony to continue but that would be a living death to lose.

He had suffered as much as she. She closed her eyes and laid her forehead in one shaking hand. What a revolutionary thought! She had accustomed herself for so long to the idea that he was a heartless wretch. Had he just been her own very dear Robert all the time?

They had told each other their stories, yet had failed to understand what had happened. And they had parted. It was all over. But why should that be? They had loved each other passionately six years before, had defied their families in order to marry, and had grieved for each other ever since. They loved and wanted each other now. Why should they be apart forever? Had they not suffered enough?

It is as well for him, he said, that he is already dead. He would suffer this night if he were still alive.

She closed her eyes and put her hands over her face. Dear God, he had suffered too.

All that had happened would not have happened. She would not be raw with pain. She would be safely content.

Philippa knew why her mother had kept everything bottled up inside. It was the innate compulsion some people—particularly women?—felt not to make a fuss, not to display their suffering and humiliation to the whole world or even to those who are nearest and dearest to them.

For very pride's sake she had kept quiet about the humiliation that had ravaged her life. There was all the horror of being pitied if one spoke out.

So little time. And all the pain looming ahead again.

We know you are wretchedly unhappy and we cannot do much to ease the pain.

What if love was the one thing that always survived and could carry one through to the other side of suffering?

that he really had suffered

You would end up unhappy and bound for life to your unhappiness.

For Allie would suffer for what she had done this night. And he would be the last person on this earth who could comfort her.

Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.

Rebecca was conscious of a dull ache inside, which she could not disguise.

There is a terrible pain,' she said softly, 'about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.

And I believe he has suffered in his life. He has a sensitivity to the hurts of others that can have come only from personal experience.

But it was an ordeal worse than any she had yet experienced in the days since she heard he was coming home. To see him and to hear him was bad enough. To touch him was unendurable—that slim yet surprisingly strong hand that had so often held hers in the past, so often touched and caressed her.

No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.