Quotes About Suffering

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?

the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.

The Lady takes most mortals unto her bosom by maladies of the colon." "Death by constipation?

The stupid knew better than to look into their wake. The wise could not help it and so suffered greatly. This was humanity's great divide, and many a time, Damisk had envied the stupid and all the obstinate incomprehension he saw in their eyes and faces. In the end, it takes wisdom to scream.

Abject misery lies not in what the blanket reveals, but in what it hides.

My faith in the gods is this: they are indifferent to my suffering.

In the cruel game of politics, we are brought low by the child within each of us, until every howl is deafening in its abject stupidity, and none can hear the wails of the suffering

We have witnessed life's myriad struggles. From the lone creature suffering its last moments to thousands dying in a bleak season. And what have we learned? Only that life is its own purpose. And that, where there is life, there shall be suffering. Has it any meaning? Is existence reason enough?

We are all gripped in madness. I have never seen the like nor heard of such a thing—gods, what we have become…