Quotes About Suffering

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.

Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

I love you, Im Meahri. I'm sorry because you suffered alone. For admitting it so late, I am sorry. You aren't going anywhere now. I am not letting you go anywhere.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?

The more I suffer, the more I love.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.