Quotes about Suffering

All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind.

He was sat as before save headless, drenched in blood, the cigarillo still between his fingers, leaning toward the dark and smoking grotto in the flames where his life had gone. Glanton rose. The men moved away. No one spoke. When they set out in the dawn the headless man was sitting like a murdered anchorite discalced in ashes and sark. Someone had taken his gun but the boots stood where he'd put them.

He polished the underside of the messtray with the sleeve of his shift and standing in the center of the room under the lightbulb he studied the face that peered dimly out of the warped steel like some maimed and raging djinn enconjured there.

Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him

Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.

Connie really sometimes felt she would die at this time. She felt she was being crushed to death by weird lies and by the amazing cruelty of idiocy.

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

She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.

Yet there she stood under the self-accusation of wanting him, tied to that stake of torture.