Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
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
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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