Quotes about Suffering
Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
— Emily Bronte
She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.
— Emily Bronte
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
— Emily Bronte
It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.
— Emily Bronte
Be with me always, Take any form, Drive me mad, only don't leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you
— Emily Bronte
You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
— Emily Bronte
My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself.
— Emily Bronte
You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan would have parted us, you, of your own will did it.
— Emily Bronte
How often am I to call you? There are only a few red ashes now. Joseph! come this moment.' Vigorous puffs, and a resolute stare into the grate, declared he had no ear
— Emily Bronte
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
— Epictetus
Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.
— Epictetus
I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.
— Erica Jong