To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
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.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus read more
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have read more
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
