Quotations
Suffering
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
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
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
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
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
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
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