Past Suffering Quotes

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

What kind of country are we that our history is so tragic?

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

We had a very hard training during our childhood and I don't want to live it again.