I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes —I wonder if It weighs like Mine —Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long —Or did it just begin —I could not tell the Date of Mine —It feels so old a pain —I wonder if it hurts to live —And if They have to try —And whether — could They choose between —It would not be — to die —I note that Some — gone patient long —At length, renew their smile —An imitation of a LightThat has so little Oil —I wonder if when Years have piled —Some Thousands — on the Harm —That hurt them early — such a lapse Could give them any Balm. Emily Dickinson
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...
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Paulo Coelho
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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.
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Bill Hicks
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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Dodie Smith
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.
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Sigmund Freud
More Quotes By Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
