Quotations
Suffering
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
- Scriptures
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
- Thomas Guthrie
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
...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
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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