Suffering Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.”

— R.W. Patterson

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving…

— Jack Williamson

“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

“Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy thoroughfares, from…

— Marcel Proust

“He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist…

— Arthur Phillips

“Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“She allowed herself the luxury of a good cry, figuring that her tears were mingling with the downpour to soak into the soil. It…

— Tracy Winegar

“She had that aching feeling again, that feeling she knew was happiness. It seemed not only unfamiliar but terribly fragile—and frightening. She wondered how…

— J.T. Geissinger

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola