Suffering Quote by Rick Yancey

“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

— Charles Dickens

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.”

— Herman Melville

“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor…”

— Émile Gaboriau

“He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“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

“Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“-To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.”

— Emil Cioran

“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than…

— Jacqueline Carey

“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.”

— Walter Kirn