Quotations
Suffering
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
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
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
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
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
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