I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Quotations
Suffering
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
