Suffering proverbs

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◆ If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

- Hans Christian Andersen99

◆ The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

- Rumi99

◆ What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ 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.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

- John Lennon99

◆ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ 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.

- Charles Dickens99

◆ She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

- Jonathan Safran Foer99

◆ Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

- John Keats99

◆ When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

- Yann Martel99

◆ Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.

- Sherrilyn Kenyon99

◆ At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

- John Green99

◆ We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer99

◆ There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

- Libba Bray99