„We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.“
— Anaïs Nin
„We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.“
— William Shakespeare
„On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.“
— Sigmund Freud
„To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life“
— Vincent Van Gogh