Paulo Coelho Quotes About Suffering
-
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.
→ -
Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.
→ -
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.
→ -
But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.
→ -
PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.
→ -
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.
→ -
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.
→ -
but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
→ -
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.
→ -
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
→ -
Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.
→ -
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.
→ -
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
→ -
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.
→ -
Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena
→ -
Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and 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.
→ -
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
→ -
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
→ -
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
→ -
At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” 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. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.
→ -
Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
→ -
Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.
→ -
No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
→ -
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.
→ -
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
→ -
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on
→
Related Authors
-
Khaled Hosseini Novelist -
Carlos Ruiz Zafon Novelist -
John Green Author -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Richard Bach Writer -
Mario Benedetti Journalist -
Henry Miller Writer -
J. K. Rowling Novelist -
Pablo Neruda Senator of Chile -
Jorge Luis Borges Writer -
Robin Sharma Lawyer -
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer -
Mata Hari Exotic dancer -
Agatha Christie Novelist -
Haruki Murakami Writer -
Dan Brown Author -
Jorge Amado Film writer -
Nicholas Sparks Novelist -
Carlos Fuentes Novelist