Quotations
Suffering
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
- Scriptures
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
- Hermann Hesse
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
- William Nicholson
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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