Grief Quote by Simon Lelic

“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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

“...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

— Eleanor Catton

“No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I would suffer. I would suffer. I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had…

— Cheryl Strayed

“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

The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.

— George MacDonald

“but the pain was old to him, and somehow it had become a part of him. He could bear it and speak of it.…

— Julie Anne Long

“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

“Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you…

— Hermann Hesse

“This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never…

— Robin Hobb