Bears Quote by Andrew Solomon

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we…

— Orson F. Whitney

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some…

— Gustave Flaubert

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

— Sean Stephenson

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at…

— Julian Beck

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

— Emile M. Cioran

The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

— Samuel Clarke

The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can…

— Brenda Shoshanna

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

— Anonymous

Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.

— O. J. Brigance

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

— Cesare Pavese

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain…

— John Milton