Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.