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Quotes About Suffering

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.
~ Michael Bolton
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.
~ Rumi
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
~ Joseph de Maistre
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
~ Billie Holiday
I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.
~ Alexander Rybak
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
~ Anthony Trollope
Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.
~ Lisa Bonet
Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.
~ Michael Robotham
Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.
~ Frances Harper
All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
~ Hafez
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
~ Kabir
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
~ Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
~ Franz Kafka
Hell is the inability to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
~ Isabelle Adjani
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Mount Calvary is the academy of love.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
~ Teresa of Avila
Love is a powerful painkiller.
~ Walter Kirn
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
~ William Penn
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.
~ Rod Stewart