Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Suffering
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
It is the law of nature that when adversity strikes, nature invariably provides
us with the strength to endure that pain. Look for yourself, we are not that
disheartened with the pains of present...but are worried sick about the pains to
come in future.
-Deep Trivedi
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
