“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without…”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“In the words of a Persian sage: Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.com
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.”— Mary Elizabeth Braddon, amazon.com
“It’s a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.”— David Duchovny, amazon.com
“I can read your eyes. I can read your heart. You are going to fall in love. And suffer.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com