We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Quotations
Suffering
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
-Mother Teresa
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
