Katherine Anne Porter Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Giving, Suffering, Asceticism

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.359, Open Road Media

• You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Suffering

  "Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations".

• I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Pain, Thinking

• There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Suicide, Thinking, Giving

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.94, Atlantic Monthly Press

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin