Quotations
Suffering

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
- Charles Dickens

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
- Hermann Hesse

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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