Quotations
Suffering

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi

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

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

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen

...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

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts

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