Quotations
Suffering
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
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the law of nature that when adversity strikes, nature invariably provides
us with the strength to endure that pain. Look for yourself, we are not that
disheartened with the pains of present...but are worried sick about the pains to
come in future.
- Deep Trivedi
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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 requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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