Quotes About Suffering

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

When you think of love do you think of pain?

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

An oyster may be crossed in love.

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.