It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
