Present tense Quote by Roland Barthes

“She was no longer going to feel pain, or loss, or emptiness. She was no longer going to feel.”

— Bryn Ditchburn

“God, the woman must have been a pain. When she was alive.”

— Geoff Ryman

“She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming…

— Roland Barthes

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“was no longer in a place from which she”

— Declan Conner

“She understood suffering and she knew it was a place she could not follow, not unless she wanted to drown too.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.”

— John Green

“When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.”

— Geoffrey Household

“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.”

— Corban Addison