To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Suffering
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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"
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"
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
