Quotations
Suffering
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
- Arthur J. Russell
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
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
- A Spiritual Leader
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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