Stephen King Quotes

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.