More You Love The More You Suffer Quotes

#1. The more you love, the more you suffer

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. In life there might be rules. In love there are no exceptions to those rules. No one is spared from heartbreak. We all suffer it at some point or another. You simply can't control who you love and in particular, you can't control what kind of person they are.

J.C. Reed

#3. 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

#4. If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

John Piper

#5. Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.

Nelson Rodrigues

#6. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#7. 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

#8. If you can create a bright future, the past will dance with joy in your mind for the experience and to let you suffer.

Debasish Mridha

#9. We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Walter Savage Landor

#10. If I love you more, will you suffer less?

Elie Wiesel

#11. There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Teresa

#12. When you are in love, you have to be ready to suffer and find out the meaning of love.

Debasish Mridha

#13. We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. As long as there are groupings, there will be disharmony and humanity will suffer. Grouping will be there always, but leaders have to be better to find the harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#15. 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

#16. The word compassion means "with suffering." To have compassion is to willingly join in suffering - to show those you love that you will not let them suffer

Sy Montgomery

#17. The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.

Henri

#18. The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#19. I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

Jerry Seinfeld

#20. The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you ...

Stephen Sondheim

#21. I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.

Henri Barbusse

#22. It's hard to watch someone you care about suffer. But when you love someone, you do it. You do it without question or reservation. You do it because there's no other option - because the thought of being without them is a hundred times more excruciating than bearing their burden.

Priscilla Glenn

#23. You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.

John Saul

#24. But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Jodi Picoult

#25. You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. Oh, to lie side by side in the same tomb, hand in hand, and to gently touch a finger-tip from time to time in the darkness, would suffice for my eternity.
You who suffer because you love, love more than ever. To die for love is to live by it.

Victor Hugo

#27. O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

Bernadette Soubirous

#28. Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.

Francoise Sagan

#29. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#30. But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

Paulo Coelho

#31. I know what it is like to live every day and every hour by the fruits of someone else's wretched bargain. To see people suffer and know that they suffer because I am loved.
I would not do that to the ones I love. Not for anything in the whole wide world.

Rosamund Hodge

#32. Amputees suffer itches, cramps and even severe pains in a leg that is no longer there. It can be the same with love ...

Jose N. Harris

#33. The difference between God an I is that everyday, I too deal with people who don't love but I have no desire to kill them or wish them to suffer for all of eternity for it

Anonymous

#34. Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#35. To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Honore De Balzac

#36. 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

#37. Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.

Bernadette Soubirous

#38. Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

William Shakespeare

#39. Now my soul is incarnate in my country,
My body has swallowed her soul,
And I and my country are one.
My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.

Adam Mickiewicz

#40. It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women ... that we should be the ones who so desperately need love ... affection ... acceptance.And yet, we suffer ... many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.-Shackles of Honor

Marcia Lynn McClure

#41. I would rather love with all my heart and soul and mind for one hour than to suffer all my life with the lack.

Barbara Samuel

#42. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before

Jane Austen

#43. Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love ... or ourselves.

Christopher Dutton

#44. If we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#45. Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

Wilkie Collins

#46. People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

Isabel Allende

#47. Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.

Arnold Arre

#48. We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.

Silouan The Athonite

#49. Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on!

Nehali Lalwani

#50. Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

Francesca Lia Block

#51. 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

#52. love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.

Carole Mortimer