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
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
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"
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"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
