Quotes About Suffering

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.

Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions.

Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.

Godspeed? Godspeed! What kind of a thing is that to say to a fucking galley slave?

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. I been holed up in this place long enough.

Jack was finally going mad, and it was a small comfort to know that he'd picked the right city for it.

It was just utterly, fantastically awful and it went on and on and on.

You know, now, the decision I made. Which was to suffer for the greater good. Because society will go astray if there are not those who, like me, imagine many outcomes. Let those scenarios run rampant in their minds. Anticipate the worst that could happen. Take steps to prevent it. If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.

As they came out of a stand of big oaks and maples and broke out into windswept prairie near the brow of the hill, she saw the truth, which was that people had actually been nailed to those crosses and left to die.

War is hell, but smoking cigarettes makes it all worth while

Death itself was always quick, Raphael reflected, staring off at the distant horizon. It is the survivors who feel pain the longest.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed.

Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach

And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life Life is a nightmare Yes

After college, I went through my own shit and decided that all physical suffering in the world couldn't compare to mental anguish. And when I got myself, I decided to help other people.

I'm going to do it tonight. This is such a farce, this whole thing. I thought I was better and I'm not better. I tried to get stable and I can't get stable. I tried to turn the corner and there aren't any corners; I can't eat; I can't sleep; I'm just wasting resources.

Life is a nightmare

And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life. Life is a nightmare. Yes.