We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Quotations
Suffering
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
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
-Meister Eckhart "Meister Eckhart"
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
