Life Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than…

— Jacqueline Carey

“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

“For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal…

— Eusebius of Caesarea

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate…

— Cormac McCarthy

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Eleanor Catton

“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources…

— Aldous Huxley

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“For if He did not truly suffer, no thanks to Him, since there was no suffering at all; and when we shall actually begin…

— The Church Fathers