Quotations
Suffering
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
- John Geddes
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
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