Quotations
Suffering
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
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
...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
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
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