Fear Quote by Thomas Merton

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you…

— Anonymous

“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more…

— Thomas Merton

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Paulo Coelho

“The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself”

— Paulo Coelho

“Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?”

— Michael J. Collins

“Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely.”

— Edmund White

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at…

— Brad Warner

“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are…

— Seneca

“Fear is more powerful than pain.”

— Veronica Roth

“The fact is, whenever you resist the pain that’s there, your suffering increases.”

— Elisha Goldstein

“No matter what torture they inflict, don’t let them see you suffer.”

— Sansa Rayne