SUFFERING QUOTES VII

quotations about suffering

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

ADA LEVERSON

Bird of Paradise

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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Suttree

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What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

ARTHUR ADAMOV

The Confession

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When I am pained, I find the old theory of the uselessness of communicating the circumstances of it, singularly untenable.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1, 1845

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The taste of life disappears.
The flavour of all the years.
Breath is flying away.
Life is ending today.
No more suffering.

WAR AGAINST SLEEP

"Suffering"


Most people don't mind suffering in silence as long as everyone else knows about it.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


The suffering's here
The wait is gone
The streets are filled
With a hollow song
Got a new death
It lurks outside
Follows me home

DANZIG

"End of Time"


Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

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Brothers, I see a meaning in this pain and suffering; I see God therein. The hour is sent to us for trial. Let us meet the test.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Jeremiah: a drama in nine scenes


This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world of anyone is to reach God.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil

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