Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Quotations
Suffering
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"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
