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
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
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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