Quotations
Suffering
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti
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
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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