It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
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 word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
