“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.”
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. ”
“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-”
“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”
“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”
“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 happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”