Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Quotations
Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
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"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse
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.
-Scriptures "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
