I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Quotations
Suffering
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
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
