Quotations
Suffering
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
- Scriptures
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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