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"
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"
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
