Quotations
Suffering
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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
...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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
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