Quotations
Suffering

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

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho

Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
- Hermann Hesse

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette

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

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl

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