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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
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