Heart Quote by Kathleen Tessaro

“Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one…

— Nenia Campbell

“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

“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

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose,…

— Kelseyleigh Reber

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and…

— Shauna Niequist

“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without…

— Robert Goolrick

“Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“I shall not speak of my sufferings. Cowering deep down among them I feel nothing. It is there I die, unbeknown to my stupid…

— Samuel Beckett

“For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things…

— Dean Koontz