Quotations
Suffering
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
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
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
It is the law of nature that when adversity strikes, nature invariably provides
us with the strength to endure that pain. Look for yourself, we are not that
disheartened with the pains of present...but are worried sick about the pains to
come in future.
- Deep Trivedi
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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