Love And Suffering Quotes

#1. A new song begins, and in the dark, we listen, letting lyrics about love and suffering and hope fall over us.

Autumn Doughton

#2. I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

Lydia Millet

#4. When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'

Carlos Salinas

#5. The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Gabriel Marcel

#6. [B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.

William Faulkner

#7. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Simone Weil

#8. There's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul ...

John Geddes

#9. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#10. There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive and make it through living still.

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#11. Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

Clarice Lispector

#12. To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

John Stott

#14. My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.

Heather Wolf

#15. One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Isabelle Adjani

#16. You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

Alison Croggon

#17. If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

Adoniram Judson

#18. I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

Billy Graham

#19. Let us be the hope for those who are suffering.
Let us be the eyesight for those who are blind.
Let us show the way, nonjudgmental and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Love ... includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Albert Schweitzer

#21. Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.

Nick Vujicic

#22. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.

D.L. Moody

#23. Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love ...

Thomas A Kempis

#24. I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

Rumi

#25. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other's suffering, and we
didn't now.

R.K. Lilley

#27. God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

Keith Ablow

#28. True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Peter Kreeft

#29. If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.

Debbie Ford

#30. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.

Chelsey Philpot

#31. God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#32. Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

Teresa Of Avila

#33. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

Evan Sutter

#34. Maybe man does not love well-being only? Maybe he loves suffering just as much? Maybe suffering is just as profitable for him as well-being? For man sometimes loves suffering terribly much, to the point of passion, and that is a fact.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#35. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Stephen Levine

#36. As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

Arthur Schopenhauer

#37. The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

Richard Baxter

#38. So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#39. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Bell Hooks

#40. It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#41. It is the story that we allow a Creator to write in our suffering that gives us the greatest opportunity to know the depths of His love, and in this way share that love with others.

Kayla Aimee

#42. Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I assure you I did. Deep down in your heart you don't believe in your suffering, there is a stirring of mockery, and yet you suffer - in the most genuine, honest-to-goodness way.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#43. God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).

Joyce Meyer

#44. Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

Juls Amor

#45. Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.

Hermann Hesse

#46. People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

Julian Barnes

#47. The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.

Dada Bhagwan

#48. Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Boethius

#49. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Stephen Batchelor

#50. Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.

Christopher Dines

#51. Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

Daniel Dennett

#52. Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions

Bryant McGill

#53. It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

Cheri Huber

#54. That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Florence Nightingale

#55. Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#56. I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#57. You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. A life with an end point, which makes each second important. A life that is full of love, that doesn't cause suffering and pain.

Gemma Malley

#58. You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation ... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

#59. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Eckhart Tolle

#60. Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#61. The suffering was shaping her perception about life, her values, priorities, goals and dreams.

A.A. Gupte

#62. Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Mother Teresa

#63. I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

Nickolas Ashford

#64. If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering

Nhat Hanh

#65. Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you

Criss Jami

#66. Love is an act.
Love is patient and kind.
Love is goodwill and long suffering.
Love never gives up.
Love never loses faith and hope.
Love endures every circumstances.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. 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

#68. I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

Jennifer Grey

#69. Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#70. Love is the root of so much suffering and misery, so much loss. It's the worst thing in the world, to risk yourself by loving someone. At the same time, it's the best thing in the world - and worth the risk.

Cinda Williams Chima

#71. Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#72. Some people can't see love beyond the shroud of pain and suffering, but that's no big surprise. In dire circumstances flowers seem stupid and boxes of chocolates a waste and you can't have 'true' love without those!

Bianca Sommerland

#73. Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Paulo Coelho

#74. To dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender
ourselves to suffering

Therese De Lisieux

#75. Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#76. Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

Bob Phillips

#77. I didn't mean to scare you. I'm not suicidal if that's what's freaking you out. I'm not fucked up in the head. I'm not deranged. I'm not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. I'm just a brother who loved his sister more than life itself, so I get a little intense when I think about her.

Colleen Hoover

#78. People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.

Mother Teresa

#79. We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

St. Jerome

#80. I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Mark Ruffalo

#81. The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful
though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Samuel R. Delany

#82. How do you love? With everything thy heart holds will kindness find its abode in you, with you? Feel the senses that the touch of another brings, behold thy jumping heart when lips part and you enter into loves sweet suffering. Take hold, make thy grip tight for I also know of losing.

Tonny K. Brown

#83. Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Italo Svevo

#84. The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Cornel West

#85. Going to the guru is like going to the dentist. Once you get there, the ache goes away. We all carry this ache. It is the ache of suffering. The ache is relieved by love, so become a dentist and extend your love to those around you.

John Mundahl

#86. How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

D.S. Wrights

#87. Magnus had come to a horrible realization. One that he knew would cause him nothing but pain and suffering from that day forward.
But there was no changing the truth of it.
He had fallen in love with her.

Morgan Rhodes

#88. Love and belonging are irreducible needs of all men, women, and children. We're hardwired for connection - it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The absence of love, belonging, and connection always leads to suffering.

Brene Brown

#89. In the infinity and chaos that swirls around them, they have fulfilled their purposes: to live their lives with less suffering, to further humanity's forays into the inhospitable void, to love one another unconditionally, endlessly.

Kay Simone

#90. I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Mother Teresa

#91. Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Alain De Botton

#92. In relationships, when there is suffering there cannot be true love: true Love is Unconditional. Either Love is joy and happiness, or it is not Unconditional Love.

Human Angels

#93. How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?

Marcel Proust

#94. The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#95. I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwise does not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king.

K. Farrell St. Germain

#96. Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

Charles Dickens

#97. Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.

Andreas Capellanus

#98. Through mindfully practising love and compassion we are able to heal our hearts and minds from our hurt and suffering, thus bringing harmony into this world. The more we are open to love, the easier it is to share kindness with all living creatures.

Christopher Dines

#99. Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

Merrill J. Bateman

#100. When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.

Thaddeus Of Vitovnica