Quotations
Suffering
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
The root cause of all miseries lie hidden in "Me and Mine". If it is my wealth, then
the pain of losing it, if it is my body, then the affliction of sickness... Whereas in
reality, there is nothing yours other than the feeling of your "Being".
- Deep Trivedi
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
- John Geddes
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