Quotations
Suffering
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
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
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
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
- A Spiritual Leader
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
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