Quotes About Suffering

Why? You ever seen those tiny cages they stick cats in? And those

The hysteric, whose body is transformed into a theatre for forgotten scenes, relives the past, bearing witness to a lost childhood that survived in suffering.

The Cultured Handmaiden The Black Candle The Gillyvors My Beloved Son The Rag Nymph The House of Women The Maltese Angel The Golden Straw The Year of the Virgins The Tinker's Girl Justice is a Woman A Ruthless Need The Bonny Dawn The Branded Man The Lady on my Left The Obsession The Upstart The Blind Years

Such love is bound to suffer, because it will wake up one day.

Dear God, I must be dead and in hell since you're here.

She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

They came out. They were children. They wore rags and their skin was livid with sores. Their veins were tubes, their hair wire. Sapphique reached out and touched them. 'You are the ones who will save us,' he said.

So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell.

That is the delusion of which I speak! You wish the joys of true love upon every milkmaid and stable boy in your land, and yet you consign yourself and another to lives of pure misery that you might possess a well-proportioned ballroom.

People who don't feel pain can't feel joy.

First was shock, second was apathy, and third was depersonalization and moral deformity. Frankl makes the point that only those who gave their life meaning did well. He points out that in every situation, there is always freedom of choice, even in extreme suffering.

There is no greater generosity than sharing your life story. If sharing my story helps even one person that's suffering, it would have been worth it.

Often people's worst pain is built on a false premise.

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you're losing money year after year... that's not life even, that's like death. That's eternal damnation.

Dr. Soprano has explained to me that some of this pain—which Edi experiences as pain in her joints—is actually being sent over by her organs as they falter. He described the liver as a kind of ventriloquist that speaks its suffering from nearby limbs and bones.

They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.

I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs.

If you think having and losing is so bad, try never having. Now that's devastating.

bruised, a battered internal condition that figuratively showed on the outside. Like someone had beaten her within an inch of her life in some ingenious way that left no marks.

The grief made the simplest movements of life feel like more than he could bear, and he had no idea how long he would have to live this way.

Pain had simply become a condition he had no expectation of living without.

I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic.