Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
-Scriptures "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
Quotations
Suffering
-Scriptures "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
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 "Guru Tegh Bahadur"
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
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
"Shadowlands"
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
...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
"A Familiar Rain"
