Quotations
Suffering
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
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
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
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
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
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