Quotations
Suffering
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
- Paulo Coelho
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
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
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