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Quotes About Suffering

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
~ Simone Weil
Belle sono le mani di quelle che hanno amato, anche se soffrono, loro hanno conosciuto la cuntintizza. Vale la pena innamurarsi.
~ Simonetta Agnello Hornby
We hold on until they crush our souls.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
~ Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.
~ Sir Thomas More
My mother's idiosyncratic definition of the word is the following: we all suffer and we all die."Never, ever," my mother said to me when I was eleven,"say 'pass away' for 'to die.' People die. They don't evaporate.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with children and with the child-like - those who are not in power and who suffer under the fickle and often sadistic demands of those who are.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Writing novels means being plural, being divided among your creatures and suffering with them.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Supuse que aquella entereza la llevaba en la sangre, como un rasgo escandinavo heredado de una larga estirpe de personas que sabían sufrir solas.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.
~ Nando Parrado
I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.
~ Magdalena de Pazzi
Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.
~ Mark Driscoll
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.
~ Richard Wilbur
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.
~ Gerald Massey
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.
~ Jack Hyles
I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
~ Jack White
You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.
~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
~ Khalil Gibran