If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts