Quotations
Suffering
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
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
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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