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Quotes about pain
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
People, love one another — who said that? Whose commandment is that?
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and meaningless character.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. … Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
The higher harmony is not worth the tears of one tortured child.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Circulating, but not genuine
Look at you comforting others with the words you wish someone had said to you.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!
I was burning, while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.
The most terrifying freedom is discovering that even your suffering is your own fault.