Quotations
Suffering
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
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
- Scriptures
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
- Mother Teresa
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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