Quotes About Suffering

Rejected by man, yet accepted by the Maker.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.

If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too.

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

The test of a man is in his immediate acts, and not in ultra-sentiments; and if those acts are consistently informed with selfishness and bitterness, if those at home hear his steps with dread, and feel a joyful relief on his departure, how empty are his expressions of sympathy for the suffering or down trodden how futile his membership of a philanthropic society.

Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more "efficient." - The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. - You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. - With terminal disease, nature lets you die with abbreviated suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying. -

Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced. …

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.

No nos curaremos nunca de esta guerra. Es inútil. Jamás volveremos a ser gente serena, gente que piensa y estudia y construye su vida en paz. Mirad lo que han hecho con nuestras casas. Mirad lo que han hecho con nosotros. Jamás volveremos a ser gente tranquila.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

I have a penchant, an appetite for writing lives, even unhappy ones, in the course of which the person holds on to a certain dignity up to the end, in spite of the disappointments, the things unfinished, the suffering…

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can't help crying.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards...