Suffering Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what was wrought…

— F. Sionil José

“Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.”

— Alexander Dumas

“All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years…

— Lord Dunsany

“We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to…

— Adlai Stevenson

“We went down into the dungeons where the captives were held. There was a church above one of the dungeons -- which tells you…

— Barack H. Obama

“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and…

— Tamora Pierce

“Don't bring an anchor, on a sinking boat.”

— Anthony Liccione

“the levity of the doomed has no equal.”

— Padgett Powell

“If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and…

— Ellis Peters

“Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.”

— Publius Syrus

“Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till then we say, Watching…

— Philip Larkin

“the moments when one of us was the lifeboat to the other’s ship sinking under the weight of self-hatred, and then us succumbing together…

— Peter Stenson