The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho