Suffering Quote by Howard Zinn

“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was.…

— Robin Hobb

“There was a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was so horrible in its agony that the frightened servants woke and crept out…

— Oscar Wilde

“If Bedlam gates had been flung open wide, there would not have issued forth such maniacs as the frenzy of that night had made.…

— Charles Dickens

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

“How helpless they all looked in the ugliness of sleep. A third of life spent unconscious and corpselike. And some, the great majority, stumbled…

— William Lindsay Gresham

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now…

— Victor Hugo

“The men went into the barley fields at daybreak. All morning, they scythed the rippling grass with great howling strokes, and then they spread…

— Katherine Arden

“Meanwhile, two miles down the mine shaft, nineteen men sat in absolute darkness trying to figure out what to do. One of the groups…

— Sebastian Junger

“A lot of corpses woke up every morning from their graves. Stood in front of the mirror and wore the masks which made them…

— Akshay Vasu

“Darkness fell over the small isolated cottage, the sound of the ocean waves breaking on the nearby beach. The man checked one last time…

— Brian L. Porter