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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung
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Be grateful in spite of your suffering.
3.
All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.
Richard Kadrey
4.
Attachment is the root of suffering.
The Buddha
5.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
6.
Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?
Park Chan-wook
7.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
8.
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
9.
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
Hermann Hesse
10.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11.
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut
12.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Viktor Frankl
13.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
14.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
15.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
16.
How to suffer less. The amount of meaning you have depends on the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Less meaning means less responsibility.
Jordan Peterson
17.
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka
18.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C. S. Lewis
19.
I stood still, vision blurring and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
Diana Gabaldon
20.
If true confessions are written with tears, then my tears would drown the world, as the fire in my soul would reduce it to ashes.
Emil Cioran
21.
If we want to understand why people turn to pain-killers, we have to understand why they're in pain.
Johann Hari
22.
If you deviate from your obligations everyone around you suffers.
Jordan Peterson
23.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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If you haven't forgiven yourself, how can you forgive others.
Dolores Huerta
25.
Life is not always rosy, if you want to see the rainbow you have to accept the rain.
Dolly Parton
26.
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers in Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer on his lips.
Viktor Frankl
27.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
28.
No one really understands the sorrow or joy of another.
Franz Schubert
29.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
30.
One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.
Poise
31.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
32.
The funniest people are the saddest ones.
33.
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
34.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
35.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
Mother Teresa
36.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it, one gets through many a dark night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
37.
The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
38.
This too shall pass.
Proverb
39.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
40.
To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Gordon Allport
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
42.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Jim Rohn
43.
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.
Anna Akhmatova
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
