Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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
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
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
- Thomas Guthrie
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
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