Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Suffering
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
-Mother Teresa
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
