Markus Zusak Quotes

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

People don't know what pain is until they suffer.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

I've suffered through the worst possible conditions.

Pain was a fascinating horror

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

My life was pretty rough.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

My childhood was appalling.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.