Quotations
Suffering
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
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
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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