Quotations
Suffering
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
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
- Thomas Guthrie
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 is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
- Mother Teresa
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
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