Suffering Quotes

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

To experience what isn't, love what is.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

To wander is to be alive.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.

The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.