Quotations
Suffering
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- 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
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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