#sufferings

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#true-love #imagination

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. ↗

— Edward Everett

#amends #fervent #make #nation #some

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#i #mine #novel #representing #sufferings

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#love #sufferings #life

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ↗

— Virgil

#day #joy #may #perhaps #remember

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#our #pleasures #remember #sufferings

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#joys #make #shared #sufferings

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe