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
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
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