Suffering Quote by Matthew Lewis

“May she wake in torment!’ he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. ‘Why, she’s…

— Emily Brontë

“May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven - not…

— Emily Brontë

“Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not…

— Herman Melville

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an…

— Alison Weir

“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there…

— Jane Kenyon

“Look, my soul, at the way one human being tries to inflict as much pain on another as possible; look at these people plotting…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's…

— Emily Brontë

“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more than…

— Teffi

“They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! But thou art not dead:…

— Epimenides Cretica

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“Tomb dust in my tears and skin The living avoid me, the dead Deny me. -Lies of the Living”

— Vanessa Wolf

“The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so like death…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning