Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Quotations
Suffering
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Acheron"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
