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Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.


Alphonse Daudet

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KHALED HOSSEINI For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
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VIKTOR E. FRANKL After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
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WALTER KAUFMANN A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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MARCEL PROUST Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
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ANGELINA JOLIE The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
ALEX GREY All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POE There is a Possibility of freedom from suffering. By removing the causes of suffering, it is possibl...
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KILROY J. OLDSTER There is no love without suffering.
ARIELLE DOMBASLE The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Why d’you make me suffer?"
“Because I love you.”
Now it was his turn to get angry. �...
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BUDDHA Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself.
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DAVID GIANADDA I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering....
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH There is nothing to trust seeking happiness from outside, you will only become exhausted with suffer...
DALAI LAMA True happiness generates from suffering, as suffering gives away to the unnoticed and simple. Eyes o...
JOSHUA BRAND Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN Hell is not a place of eternal suffering, but the knowledge of causing pain to one you love
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CHERI HUBER Mind is the cause of all suffering
BYRON KATIE Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose...
WALTER KAUFMANN May all that have life be delivered from suffering
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BUKKYO DENDO KYOKAI What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the sense...
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.
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PORTIA DE ROSSI If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ine...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering
JANE ROBERTS There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many b...
STEPHEN LEVINE I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...
JOSEPH ADDISON I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...
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— Who knows it better?
— Yet you believ...
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Trpljenje patnikâ nije ništa veliko ni uzvišeno; u svome korijenu ono je sve drugo samo ne solida...
JOHANN BAPTIST METZ The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
WALTER KAUFMANN Those who chooses to leave those they love behind; knows not of the suffering they leave behind; onl...
JESSICA MOSLEY WARD Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
TONY BENN We are attuned to our suffering due the certaininty it brings with it!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. Do to us wh...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. [D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, l...
STEPHEN LEVINE Nothing is easier than showing your pain in a world indifferent to any suffering.
SORIN CERIN That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our...
JERRY BRIDGES The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman.
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JON KABAT-ZINN May all that have life be delivered from suffering. Buddhist prayer.
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ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS I want to suffer so that I may love.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
DODIE SMITH Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
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