“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”

“The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one.”

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

“As the French say, aimer est souffrir, to love is to suffer, and therefore, to say that love is essential to the Being of God is to say that in one way or another suffering is essential to his nature. That is to say something our forefathers would have declined to accept. They would have retorted that God, as Father, must be above or beyond suffering. If, however, we take seriously the declaration "God is love," how can we avoid the entailment that suffering is essential to the divine Being?”

“Suffering is an excellent teacher, and Aeschylus says, "We learn by sufferings. "We are easily] up; sufferings keep us humble. We easily turn to worldly things. Sufferings make us turn to ( love ourselves; sufferings teach us to love God."”

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

“Suffering for another is one of the most painful ways to love!”