David Sedaris Quotes

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

Love hurts whether its right ow wrong

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.