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
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
- Arthur J. Russell
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
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