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Quotes About Suffering

Love cannot save you from your own fate.
~ Jim Morrison
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
~ Eckhart Tolle
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.
~ Lynsay Sands
Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.
~ Gianna Beretta Molla
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
~ Mark Rothko
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
~ Steven Seagal
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.
~ Ellen Pompeo
Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
~ Agatha Christie
Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.
~ Adam Mickiewicz
Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
~ F. Sionil Jose
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
~ Garchen Rinpoche
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
~ Theophile Gautier
Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.
~ Richard Rohr
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
~ John Stott
Not loving is but a long dying.
~ Emperor Wu of Han
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
~ Isadora Duncan
Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.
~ Sarah Kane
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt
~ Gautama Buddha
I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Love is the sweetest pain inside.
~ Tarkan