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
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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
