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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
- Mother Teresa
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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