Century Quote by Anonymous

“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled up within,…

— Anonymous

“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review the times…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting…

— Bryant McGill

“Pain, as well as beauty, is necessary to give us perspective. We can place our suffering against the backdrop of time and allow our…

— Mary Pipher

“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. The principal enemies of human happiness are inordinate desire—the fantasy of attaining something…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness of it…

— Rohinton Mistry

“Even the regular sufferings of fear were better than the ashen grayness of unfeeling, the numbness that had clutched his heart for months. Who…

— Matthew Specktor

“The grim egoism (egotism) of mourning of suffering”

— Roland Barthes

“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“it referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like.”

— Don DeLillo