To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
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"
The root cause of all miseries lie hidden in "Me and Mine". If it is my wealth, then
the pain of losing it, if it is my body, then the affliction of sickness... Whereas in
reality, there is nothing yours other than the feeling of your "Being".
-Deep Trivedi
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"
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
