Garden of eden Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

— Eleanor Catton

“it was a love and empathy for those who suffered, for what they endured and what he might bring to bear.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

— Charles Dickens

“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless.…

— Kim Fielding

“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders

“He longed for company. He was cruel because he didn't know whether or not people felt pain and he wanted to find out and…

— Michèle Roberts

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”

— Alice Hoffman