The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.