Fingernails Quote by Anonymous

“I can sympathise with everything, except suffering", cried Lord Harry, Shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly, too horrible,…

— Oscar Wilde

“That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God”

— John Updike

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T —…

— Anonymous

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

— Gloria Steinem

“It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to…

— Jim Butcher

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

— Jodi Picoult

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Physical pain is not the worst thing a human has to deal with,” Altman said. “Believe me, I see it every day. Not death,…

— Jo Nesbø

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry…

— Jim Butcher

“Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.”

— Nicky Singer

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

— Richard Rohr