suffering
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but— I hope — into a better shape.”
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
“The only true paradise is paradise lost.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”