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Suffering Quotes

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be "

"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt"

"Man had to suffer in order to comprehend."

"The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer."

"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."

"Afflictions are often the result of imprudence."

"People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death"

"Human beings suffer their own memory and imagination; that is they suffer what does not exist."

"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the one suffering you could avoid"

"I want to suffer to be purified by suffering"

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies "

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy"

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man"

"To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell."

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