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Suffering Quotes
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Short suffering quotes from writers, poets and thinkers. Copy one, share it, or download it as an image.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To perceive is to suffer.
AristotleAristotle To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
AeschylusAeschylus Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare The more you love, the more you suffer.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
Thich Nhat HanhThich Nhat Hanh The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl MarxKarl Marx Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki MurakamiHaruki Murakami You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell The only thing that changed about you is me.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry