Pain and suffering is a normal state of human life. Everyone should get to know the philosophy of pain and suffering. The desire of metaphorizing and narrating is the “essential impulsion” when the subject of life suffers. Based on the interpretation of the common types of metaphorical strategies for the sufferer, this article clarifies the generation and expression of suffering metaphors and narratives through concretely showing the metaphoric wisdom of self-salvation of suffering people and the metaphors of suffering people that trigger the professional reflection of medical staff. The resulting mitochondrial effect advocates the use of metaphoric narrative to help the sufferer to build an interactive narrative relationship between subjects, to help the sufferer to get out of the narrative foreclosure, and to integrate into the process of harmonious life narrative.