Quotations
Suffering
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
...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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
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
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
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