If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.

Ada Limon
About This Quote

Suffering is not something to glorify. However, the one who suffers for others will be rewarded in heaven. The Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Seneca said, "If we could light up the room with pain, we'd be such a glorious fire."

Source: Bright Dead Things

Some Similar Quotes
  1. I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but... - Haruki Murakami
  2. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him... - Paulo Coelho
  3. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. - Ernest Hemingway
  4. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Unknown
  5. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
More Quotes By Ada Limon
  1. I am not obsessing. I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.
  2. All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
  3. There are so many people who’ve come before us, arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo. Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them, generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay. I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.
  4. People have done this before, but not us.
  5. If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.
Related Topics