Quotations
Suffering

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

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

If we stop considering ourselves special on the level of physicalities, half our
sorrows will disappear by themselves. From sickness to death, events to
accidents; what happens to others, can always happen to us and our beloved
ones too... Then what's the point in grieving about them for so long?
- Deep Trivedi

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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