„Reason, indeed, may oft complainFor Nature’s sad reality,And tell the suffering heart, how vainIts cherished dreams must always be;And Truth may rudely trample downThe flowers of Fancy, newly-blown:“

— Emily Brontë

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„Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…“
— Louisa May Alcott
„For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.“
— James Baldwin
„Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.“
— Jane Austen
„Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.“
— Herodotus
„May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.“
— Bob Dylan
„May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.“
— Bram Stoker