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Quotes About Suffering

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Do not doubt the holy love of Jesus to your soul when he is laying a heavy hand upon you.
~ Robert E. Murray
To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
~ Rumi
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.
~ Shaun Hutchinson
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
~ Sylvia Plath
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
~ Teresa of Avila
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
~ Wang Wei
Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest
~ William Shakespeare
People say love is a gift but i say love is a burden, loving someone and having to watch them be in love with someone else.
~ Joshua
Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Love and despair go hand in hand.
~ Barry Hannah
It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.
~ Cady Groves
Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.
~ Cassandra Clare
Love is a Dog from Hell.
~ Charles Bukowski
We get inflamed, I guess, when people come back and try to make something of the case. It's like we heal and then the wound opens again. It was hard enough for me, but Allison lost her sister. It doesn't matter that it was in 1978.
~ Maureen Johnson
To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Chaque homme, parce qu'il croit un peu que le monde est né en même temps que lui, souffre, au moment de quitter la vie, de laisser l'univers inachevé.
~ Maurice Druon
Everything I feel attracted to, all things that hold me enthralled in an ever more fierce and tyrannical fascination: that is all I can call reality. All the rest is just chance. This kind of reality leaves more traces of suffering than of happiness: but nobody thinks about that.
~ Maurice Gilliams
S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.
~ Max Barry
An influx of immigrants also can contribute to the impression among white, working-class Americans that "their" country is being lost. But the right answer is to ameliorate the suffering of those left behind by providing retraining and social welfare benefits—not to shut down free trade and immigration and thereby impose heavy costs on the entire country.
~ Max Boot
Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it's unsustainable.
~ Max Brooks
The human heart can only absorb so much pain.
~ Max Brooks
They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'...'cause they figured it was so big and awful that the world'd just have to come to its senses and make damn sure we never fought another one ever again. That woulda been a helluva nice story. But the truth's got an ugly way of killin' nice stories.
~ Max Brooks