The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
