Suffering quotes and Sayings
And as Oscar Wilde rightly puts it, “The heart was made to be broken”.
“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.”
And Shakespeare also wrote beautifully about sufferings, I specially like this one, “He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
A quote on change, “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”
“In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. ”
“And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know. ”
“We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it’s all over much too soon.”
“He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. “