personal suffering Quotes

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

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

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it's me.

It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more glorious in times of inward storm and of personal sorrow and tormenting conflict.

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.