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Quotes About Suffering

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
~ Gerard Way
If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
~ Luke Davies
We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love.
~ Marc Gafni
Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.
~ Paulo Coelho
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.
~ Rumi
God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
~ William Shakespeare
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.
~ Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
The world is dyed with the color of blood. It will never be able to go back to the way it was before.
~ Matsuri Hino
Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me
~ Ashanti
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
~ C. S. Lewis
One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.
~ Carlos Salinas
Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
~ Graham Greene
Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
~ James Frey
Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
~ Janet Morris
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
~ Junot Diaz