It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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"
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
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
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
