When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
It is the law of nature that when adversity strikes, nature invariably provides
us with the strength to endure that pain. Look for yourself, we are not that
disheartened with the pains of present...but are worried sick about the pains to
come in future.
-Deep Trivedi
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
