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
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
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Acheron"
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
