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Quotes About Suffering

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us
~ Kendrick Lamar
He who would love much has also much to suffer.
~ Jose Rizal
Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.
~ Clare of Assisi
Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.
~ Mother Angelica
All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.
~ Shantideva
Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself
~ Young Jeezy
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
~ Albert Einstein
Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.
~ Bernadette Soubirous
In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
~ Chiara Lubich
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
~ Anton Chekhov
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
~ Hermann Hesse
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
~ Adoniram Judson
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.
~ Sandra Cisneros
If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.
~ Peter Kreeft
Palestinian people are in love with life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.
~ Gemma Galgani
The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.
~ Katrina Kaif
It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.
~ Bernadette Soubirous
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
~ Jacqueline Carey
Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
~ S. N. Goenka
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.
~ John Wesley
I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.
~ Keanu Reeves
When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion.
~ Stephen Levine