Quotes About Suffering

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

Love when it comes, its easy. But when it leaves, its like dying.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

Love is a grave mental illness.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.