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Suffering Quotes by Paulo Coelho

101 Suffering quotes by Paulo Coelho

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My heart’s afraid it’ll have to suffer, yet Paulo Coelho shows that intense, unexpected pain can pass quickly, while lingering sorrow eats away unnoticed. He writes about love that feels unreciprocated and the way hearts resist following dreams because they dread suffering. Suffering, he suggests, often returns in the same shape it arrived.

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The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

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“I have learned to suffer in silence.”

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Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

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“My heart’s afraid it’ll have to suffer….”

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Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

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Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

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Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.

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“Ever since we were expelled from paradise, we have either been suffering, making other people suffer or watching the suffering of others”

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Why dont peoples hearts tell them to continue following their dreams? Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't…

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“But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go…

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“I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something…

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“‎Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it.”

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Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those…

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But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

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

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“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the…

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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the…

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She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of…

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Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is…

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You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they…

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He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might…

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“But why all these questions? Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering. Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid…

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“It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how…

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Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is…

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The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all…

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Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they…

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“But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more…

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“At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because…

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Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to…

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Something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person…

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My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything…

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“No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that…

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“So, why is it so important to live our personal calling if we are only going to suffer more than other people?…

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“the fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives. Oscar Wilde said: “Each man kills…

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“All of us have had this experience. At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love…

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“You experienced pain yesterday and you discovered that it led to pleasure.You experienced it today and found peace.That's why I'm telling you:Don't…

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Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

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Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

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Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

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The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms…

“The simpler the pose, the better; the more sober, the more beautiful.”