Quotations
Suffering
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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
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