Quotations
Suffering
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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
...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
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