Quotations
Suffering

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

The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung

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

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho

The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman

...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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi

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

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