In suffering we find our truest selves.

Jessie Burton
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  1. 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

  2. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. - Bill Hicks

  4. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. - Dodie Smith

  5. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. - Sigmund Freud

More Quotes By Jessie Burton
  1. What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

  2. A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

  3. Like most artists, everything I produced was connected to who I was - and so I suffered according to how my work was received. The idea that anyone might be able to detach their personal value from their public output was revolutionary.

  4. I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I’ll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I’m being selfish. It’s perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of...

  5. You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

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