Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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
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