It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
