Quotes About Suffering

Why do girls always fall madly in love with men who only make them suffer, while they barely bat an eye at the ones who would move mountains for them?

Auch, wenn ihre Nachbarn litten - solange das Leid nicht bei ihnen selbst Einkehr hielt, zogen sie es vor, wegzusehen und so zu tun, als würden die schlechten Dinge nicht existieren. Es war nicht immer Feigheit. Für manche erforderte das Leben an sich schon sehr viel Mut.

You know," he said, easing down into the chair. "It's funny how we always search for reasons not to love—fear of suffering, fear of abandonment—but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you're going to lose all of it.

Pourquoi les filles tombent-elles raides amoureuses d'hommes qui les font souffrir et traitent avec indifférence ceux qui seraient prêts à leur décrocher la lune ?

I am beginning to see how grief has transformed me, humbled me, opened me up, cut through the bullshit of my being. It's not growth anyone wants to do. It's growth that has been thrust upon us, ripped from us, has come from being punched in the soul and kicked in the heart. You have no choice.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

Et puis tout d'un coup, je te vois et ça m'arrive que je t'aime, d'une façon que c'est pas possible de le dire...Tout le temps, je te vois, tout le temps je te parle...Le sommeil, ça me l'a tué, quand je mange, ça n'a plus de goût.Si tu ne me veux pas, ou je meurs ou je deviens fou.

Les malheurs n'inspirent jamais confiance, et l'horreur des grands massacres enlaidit jusqu'aux victimes.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

This malady which Swann's love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so utterly inseparable from him, that it would have been impossible to eradicate it without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his love was no longer operable.

one might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)

a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.