Quotes About Suffering

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

We all have to pay till the day we die, just to breathe the air and exist in this world."

Now every word of praise came back to him like a hot knife. Every delicious bite of food seemed poisonous.

and are paying a heavy price for losing.

How are you feeling?" Kendra asked. "Stabbed," he said.

Excruciating agony makes me cranky.

everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

You just want to stop existing," Kaladin said. "You don't want to actually kill yourself, not on most days. But you figure it sure would be convenient if you weren't around anymore.

Cleaning the wound is often more painful than the cut itself.

You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

If the afterlife really is a big war," Kaladin said, "then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

I know how you feel. Dark, like there's never been light in the world. Like everything in you is a void, and you wish you could just feel something. Anything. Pain would at least tell you you're alive. Instead you feel nothing. And you wonder, how can a man breathe, but already be dead?

And yet, he was finding more and more that he didn't want to take his mind off her. Which was more potent? The pain of memory, or the pain of forgetting?

None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams. They could do nothing more to him.

Better to exist in agony than to vanish entirely.

Exhaustion," Dalinar said, "pain, suffering. This is what victory usually feels

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

It seems to me that now—suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything—is when we need knowledge the most.

A man better appreciates love when he has been forced for so long to go without.

I looked at Hurl's lacerated face, her one remaining eye staring ahead. Defiant until the end, for all the good it had done. Brave . . . cowardly . . . she was still dead, so what did it matter?

For while life was painful, life was also sweet.

Don't you think a man better appreciates love when he has been forced for so long to go without?