Quotations
Suffering
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
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
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
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
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