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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

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

The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C. S. Lewis

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

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Gordon Allport

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Jim Rohn

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Mother Teresa

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?

Park Chan-wook

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Seneca

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud

Attachment is the root of suffering.

The Buddha

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

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

Richard Kadrey

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Bruce Lee

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

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Franz Kafka

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

If we want to understand why people turn to pain-killers, we have to understand why they're in pain.

Johann Hari

If you deviate from your obligations everyone around you suffers.

Jordan Peterson

If you haven't forgiven yourself, how can you forgive others.

Dolores Huerta

Life is not always rosy, if you want to see the rainbow you have to accept the rain.

Dolly Parton

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

No one really understands the sorrow or joy of another.

Franz Schubert

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.

Poise

The funniest people are the saddest ones.

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it, one gets through many a dark night.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This too shall pass.

Proverb

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

Quotes

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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.

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.

The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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.

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.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?

Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Attachment is the root of suffering.

Attachment is the root of suffering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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.

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.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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.

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.

How to suffer less. The amount of meaning you have depends on the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Less meaning means less responsibility.

How to suffer less. The amount of meaning you have depends on the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Less meaning means less responsibility.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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.

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.

If we want to understand why people turn to pain-killers, we have to understand why they're in pain.

If we want to understand why people turn to pain-killers, we have to understand why they're in pain.

If you deviate from your obligations everyone around you suffers.

If you deviate from your obligations everyone around you suffers.

If you haven't forgiven yourself, how can you forgive others.

If you haven't forgiven yourself, how can you forgive others.

Life is not always rosy, if you want to see the rainbow you have to accept the rain.

Life is not always rosy, if you want to see the rainbow you have to accept the rain.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.

No one really understands the sorrow or joy of another.

No one really understands the sorrow or joy of another.

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.

The funniest people are the saddest ones.

The funniest people are the saddest ones.

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.