Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
