Quotes about Suffering
Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.
- Cormac McCarthy
Connie really sometimes felt she would die at this time. She felt she was being crushed to death by weird lies and by the amazing cruelty of idiocy.
- DH Lawrence
Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.
- DH Lawrence
She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
- DH Lawrence
Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers
- DH Lawrence
In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.
- DH Lawrence
Yet there she stood under the self-accusation of wanting him, tied to that stake of torture.
- DH Lawrence
But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.
- DH Lawrence
She never suffered alone any more: the children suffered with her.
- DH Lawrence
Her still face, with the mouth closed tight from suffering and disillusion and self-denial, and her nose the smallest bit on one side, and her blue eyes so young, quick, and warm, made his heart contract with love.
- DH Lawrence
Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
- Walt Whitman