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Quotes About Suffering

There is nothing compassionate about Biden's lax border policy, not for the poor souls who have been lured into the arms of criminal human-smugglers, and not for the American people, who already are suffering the consequences of what can only be described as a secret government-sponsored invasion.
~ Miranda Devine
You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.
~ George Herman
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.
~ Geraldine Brooks
It's interesting when you talk to someone who has really been through something very, very terrible. They are less likely to talk about it. People who have had a bad day because their soup was cold can talk about their 'suffering' all day long.
~ Davis Guggenheim
For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.
~ Hisham Matar
...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet it hurt so achingly bad.
~ Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because we have loved profoundly, Because we have given much, Because we have hoped passionately, Because we have desired intensely, We allow ourselves to be infinitely hurt.
~ Jess
Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?
~ J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
Anytime his gaze fell upon her, it was always the same. That awful chest pain, so relentless it was like his heart exploded.
~ Allie Burke, Emerald Destiny
Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.
~ Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
Love hurts because we think that's what love is.
~ Marty Rubin
Suffering is not a consequence, it is about permission.
~ Karen A. Baquiran
The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?Here endeth the lesson.
~ Kelly Link
A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.
~ Jim Beaver, Life's That Way
It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.
~ Vikas Swarup, Q & A
Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.
~ Meghna Pant
...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Rory said he loved me but wouldn't hold my hand in public. & he wanted so badly to end the pain, but it never went away, it stayed with the people that loved him.
~ Christopher Soto
I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.This desire will be my end.
~ Sabrina Benulis, Archon