The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Suffering
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"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
