Quotations
Suffering
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
- Hermann Hesse
...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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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