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"
Quotations
Suffering
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
...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"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
