You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse
Quotations
Suffering
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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"
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
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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 "Meister Eckhart"
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
