Anna Akhmatova Quotes

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

Living, it's awful for me.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

I have been through so much.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.