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“The suffering of pain and abandonment is overcome by the suffering of love, which is not afraid of what is sick and ugly but accepts it and takes it in itself to heal it.”

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“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death, and through the surrender of one's will and love of self. But that's no good to me, I like to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life—artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be something else, but I don't think I belong to that category of souls who are ready to live, and also ready to suffer, at any moment.”

Art Real Suffering Painting Letter Renunciation

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!’ The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. ‘Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?”

Suffering Acceptance Misery

Book:Toll the Hounds

Source: Toll the Hounds

“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.”

Life Pain Happiness Suffering

Book:Cane

Source: Cane

“All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing. You are nothing. It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.”

Philosophy Suffering Hope Failure Relief Deep Nothing Inconsequential Striving Greater Purpose

Book:Tess of the Road

Source: Tess of the Road

“He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.”

Suffering Metaphor Torture Iris Murdoch Relentless The Green Knight Endless Suffering Constant Suffering

Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired. - Simone Weil”

Pain Suffering Universe Quotes Transcending

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“once upon a time i decided love was too much like drowning made myself an island where if i scream out the ocean swallows entire cities until i see my suffering is small enough to cradle before miracles went extinct...”

Love Suffering Miracle Memory

Book:Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

Source: Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“Sometimes suffering is the sacrifice you have to make to achieve greatness, success and your destiny.”

Success Suffering Destiny Sacrifice Greatness Blood Sweat And Tears No Pain No Gain Work Hard For What You Want

Author:Jeanette Coron

“Sometimes I think he will become quite desperate — with the pain of simply being himself — he might do anything.”

Pain Suffering Desperate Iris Murdoch Unpredictable The Green Knight The Self

Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

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