quotations about suffering
It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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The Dispossessed
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
Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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
Most people don't mind suffering in silence as long as everyone else knows about it.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
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