Quotations
Suffering
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
The root cause of all miseries lie hidden in "Me and Mine". If it is my wealth, then
the pain of losing it, if it is my body, then the affliction of sickness... Whereas in
reality, there is nothing yours other than the feeling of your "Being".
- Deep Trivedi
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
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
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