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Quotes About Suffering

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
~ Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn
True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
~ D. Morgenstern
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
~ Alan Paton
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
~ Albert Camus
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
~ Albert Camus
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
~ Albert Camus
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
~ Albert Camus
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.
~ Ally Carter
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
~ Anais Nin
That which is painful sharpens one's love.
~ Andrew Davidson
Despair is part of love.
~ Andrew Solomon
Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
~ David Levithan
Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.
~ Judith Viorst
Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.
~ Sam Savage
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
~ Agatha Christie
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
~ Allison Pearson
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
~ C. S. Lewis
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
~ Djuna Barnes
Yes," I said, "for the love of God!
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Love is a hell you cannot bear.
~ Fiona Apple