Quotes About Suffering

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.

Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

Sometimes when you love someone so deeply, that is the thing that hurts the most.

Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.

…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. "I don't want to die, " she whispered, "but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it's going to kill you today.

Oh yes. Sometimes love hurts. But the lack of love kills.

My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you…A million times.

She was floating in the midst of a black sea, in the darkest of nights, with no hope or care to see light again. She was a mere wave away from drowning in blackness.

I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can't survive without being next to yours. -Chase

Like a kiss, the pain which envelops us will leave and in it's place there will be an empty pit.

Oh God Angel, " he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~

I'd rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, " he says, "than watch them destroy you because of me.

The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.

Life's just a sacrifice, a ransomWe pay to Death for Love to save, Which turns to be as great as handsomeTo get a blessing from the grave.

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more.

Pain reminds us that we are alive and breathing, that we still have the strength within to fight

This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.

Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you.

FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, 'Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more you get back? It's love, Alex.'To which Alex asked, 'What about pain?