Quotations
Suffering
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
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
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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
...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
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