Quotations
Suffering
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
...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
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
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
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
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
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