We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Quotations
Suffering
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
