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Quotes About Suffering

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.
~ Susan Hale
We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
~ Terry McMillan
The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.
~ Thomas Malory
He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
~ Thornton Wilder
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
~ William Blake
But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
~ William Butler Yeats
The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
~ Anita Shreve
I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.
~ Anita Shreve
Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.
~ Anne Rice
Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.
~ Anne Rice
There is no love without suffering.
~ Arielle Dombasle
Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
~ Bette Midler
It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.
~ Carrie Jones
Jace is in love with the idea of dying," said Isabelle.
~ Cassandra Clare
Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
~ Charles Bukowski
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
~ Charles Dickens
Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland