Quotations
Suffering
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- Paulo Coelho
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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