“Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a s…”— Ben Okri, amazon.com
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”— Anna Funder, amazon.com
“Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and d…”— Dan Millman, amazon.com
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. [He] was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”— John Green, amazon.com
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.”— Paul Bowles, amazon.com
“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.”— Mikhail Bulgakov, amazon.com
“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com