To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer

"Why d’you make me suffer?"
“Because I love you.”
Now it was his turn to get angry. “No, no, you don’t love me! People in love want happiness, not pain!”
“People in love want only love, even at the cost of pain.”
“Then you’re making people suffer on purpose.”
“Yes, to see if you love me.”
The Baron’s philosophy would not go any further. “Pain is a negative state of the soul.”
“Love is all.”
“Pain should always be fought against.”
“Love refuses nothing.”
“Some things I’ll never admit.”
“Oh yes, you do, now, for you love me and you suffer.

She loves in a way that will make her suffer horribly.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable.

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.