Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
- Paulo Coelho
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
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
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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
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