suffering Quotes

"What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered."

"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

"Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."

"Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison."

"One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness."

"Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth."

"If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!"

"Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living."