Quotes About Suffering

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

¦-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity,

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

Heartsick, heartbroken To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.

To be loved is very demoralizing

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious

Love is a reciprocal torture.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el

Where there is love there is pain

Suffering is the true cement of love

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Only love is like an arrow to your heart; the more you try to take it out, the more pain and blood you get

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.