Suffering Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Hadn’t the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of…

— Stephen King

“As we passed this living cruelty, I shuddered in momentarily isolation and then let out an audible gasp at what I saw. They were…

— Alfred Nestor

“With relief they wrapped their heads in rags, and their breasts in flannel; eased their feet into felt. They were through with lust and…

— Toni Morrison

“I held onto Caeden’s neck with one hand and used the other to keep my dress from flashing my fanny at any unsuspecting woodland…

— Micalea Smeltzer

“Humans were fragile creatures, needing a lot of covering to survive. They could no more live with their hearts bared than they could make…

— Roxanne Snopek

“Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies”

— Julie Anne Grasso

“There were, in Clochemerle, a number of lady 'invalids', their conversation one long jeremiad concerning their health, who had worn out their husbands and…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“some of them were desperate, they starve themselves thin or pump their breasts full of silicon, had their noses cut off. Think of the…

— Margaret Atwood

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay…

— W.G. Sebald

“Millions of tiny arthropod feet swarmed over me until my entire body was enveloped. They”

— Inge-Lise Goss