„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

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„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
„The world begins and ends with us. Only our consciousness exists, it is everything, and this everything vanishes with it. Dying, we leave nothing. Then why so much fuss around an event that is no such thing?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.“
— Anaïs Nin
„Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.“
— Kurt Cobain
„Without pain, there would be no suffering. Without suffering, we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.“
— Angelina Jolie
„On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky