Satisfaction Quote by Emily Greenwood

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“...she had to content herself with loving and suffering in silence...”

— Paulo Coelho's

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...”

— Sara Foster

“He knew only pain, and she was freedom. He felt madness, and with her it was pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

“Maybe his grief was like her wounded arm. Slowly healing. Gradually becoming less consuming as life delivered other worries and other joys. Other sources…

— Veronica Rossi

“She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moments pleasure without an eternity of pain.”

— Tonya Hurley

“Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being?”

— Anton Chekhov

“...her father was soothed by these attentions, as if pain were an appetite for comforting of just this kind.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“He thought that he disliked seeing one who had mortified him so keenly; but he was mistaken. It was a stinging pleasure to be…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“she sat rocking his head back and forth, back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness.”

— Colleen McCullough