Quotations
Suffering

We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud

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

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

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

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

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