Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Suffering
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
-A Spiritual Leader "Guru Tegh Bahadur"
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations"
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
