Quotations
Suffering
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The root of all our miseries is not being mentally prepared for a situation. I cannot
understand, why don't you accept that what happens to others, can always
happen to you as well!
- Deep Trivedi
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
- A Spiritual Leader
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