Quotes about Suffering

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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. I — Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brou — Bill Hicks
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lo — Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. — John Green, Looking for Alaska
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats, Letters of John Keats
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze. — John Green, Looking for Alaska
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought. — Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moment — Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive — Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suff — Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. — Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack o — C. JoyBell C.
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did no — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn