Quotes About Suffering

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

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.

Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.

Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest...

Once in a lifetime someone breaks your heart and if you still feel that you should hold on to them every broken piece is among TRUE LOVE

God is in the healing, not the pain.

Unrequited love can be so painful, but it is the truest sign of True Love.

Good hearts easily get broken. Strong hearts get healed faster. But the best heart is that which never ceases to love, despite the pains faced.

One of the greatest pain and agony is being in one sided love with someone.

Love can be very painful but even more painful is when you're trying to stop it.

Love is not painful. Circumstances make it painful.. And if you're really in love, that pain will also seem beautiful.

I just don't understand how God would let us meet, if there is no way for us to be together. - Dr. Maggie Rice

Love hurts but what hurts the most is not to be Loved.

I guess the pain we all have to bear and outgrow is the pain of those we love most but who don't love us.

Sometimes it is better to hide our feelings and watch the person you loved most love someone else.