Quotations
Suffering
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
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
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
- Thomas Guthrie
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
...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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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