It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
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"
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"
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
