Paulo Coelho Suffering Quotations

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

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

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

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

Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

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

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

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

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

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

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

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

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

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

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.