Quotes about Suffering

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering.

4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain about life, saying, Everything is always the same and I have nothin' 2 change it. Because I'm livin' this day as if it were my first and, while it lasts, I will discover things that I didn't even know were there.

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams.

Worse than the composers' suffering, though, was the fact that the girl was playing the music with such soul because she knew she was going to die. And am not going to die? Where is my soul that I might play the music of my own life with such enthusiasm?

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.