I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
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"
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
