I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from…

Life is suffering. Once you learn to accept that life is suffering, life will cease to be suffering.

— Anonymous

“In other words, you could endlessly try to have suffering cease by dealing with outer circumstances—and that’s usually what all of us do. It…

— Pema Chödrön

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

— Madame de Stael

“...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that…

— Thomas Hardy

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if…

— Cassandra Clare

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

— Marcel Proust

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

— Marcel Proust

“Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain”

— Keri Lake

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

“Maybe love, like suffering, is relative. ”

— Dan Chaon

Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.…

— Lynsay Sands

“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you…

— Assia Petricelli

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.…

— Jim Morrison

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith