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Quotes About Suffering

Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.
~ Christopher Paolini
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
~ Clive Barker
Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.
~ Conor Oberst
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
~ Danielle Steel
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.
~ Diana Gabaldon
None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
~ Djuna Barnes
When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.
~ Dorothy Koomson
You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
~ Edward Young
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
~ Erica Jong
Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
~ Erma Bombeck
You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
~ Francesca Lia Block
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
~ Francois Fenelon
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.
~ Frederick Lenz
Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.
~ Frederick Lenz
When we're inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering, the mind of the moment is very beautiful. Sometimes we call it the mind of love. It's because of love that we practice.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
~ Friedrich Nietzsche