Suffering Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her…

— Gena Showalter

“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

“Perhaps the reason she was so unhappy was because she thought unhappy thoughts.”

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

“... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.”

— Lois Lowry

“Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared…

— Jojo Moyes

“She thought her world had stopped falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to…

— Lorraine Heath

“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a…

— J. Robert Lennon

“...she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.”

— Sidney Sheldon

“She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.”

— Peadar Ó Guilín

“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not…

— Zane Grey