Quotations
Suffering
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
- Arthur J. Russell
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti
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
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
- John Geddes
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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