Quotes About Suffering

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

the fruit of the Spirit doesn't show itself so much when life is a dream, when there is no chaffing, no trials, no suffering, and no compromise. What shows itself in those moments of perfection is the fruit of the flesh

Joy serves a purpose in the life of pain that many have never accurately understood.

But why must man suffer and sacrifice for God? At the end of his suffering and sacrifice he will find that though he began to do so for God, it has proved to be for himself. It is the foolishly selfish who is selfish, and the wisely selfish proves to be selfless.

If one wants to torture oneself for the sake of torture one may do so, but not for spiritual perfection.

The warmth of the lover's atmosphere, the piercing effect of his voice, the appeal of his words, all come from the pain of his heart.

Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain... The pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

Love is a blessing, but it turns into a curse in attachment.

Why Do Fairies Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?

Heather Dune Macadam

You must grow strong. Pain must never cause pain.

The hard-core politicians she knew wouldn't be stalking her; they weren't suffering from any mental disorders. Wait—not true. Anyone in politics was suffering from a mental disorder!

She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. He'll on earth.

She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. Hell on earth.

I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Anyone to whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

Even back then I understood the real purpose of literature. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is both my biggest cross and my greatest blessing.