Abuse Quote by Robin Hobb

“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--”

— Dante Alighieri

“I was not sorrowful, but only tired Of everything that ever I desired.”

— Ernest Dowson

“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

“All these were things he could not want, because they were the things he could not have, and wanting you could not have led…

— Cassandra Clare

“I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.”

— Juliet Marillier

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have…

— Cassandra Clare

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

“I am not sorrowful but I am tired Of everything that I ever desired.”

— Ernest Dowson

“God has never experienced misery. The one, who becomes estranged from God, has misery.”

— Dada Bhagwan