Quotations
Suffering

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

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

Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

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

When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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

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