Quotations
Suffering
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
If we stop considering ourselves special on the level of physicalities, half our
sorrows will disappear by themselves. From sickness to death, events to
accidents; what happens to others, can always happen to us and our beloved
ones too... Then what's the point in grieving about them for so long?
- Deep Trivedi
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