Quotations
Suffering
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
...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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
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
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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