Quotations
Suffering
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
- William Nicholson
If we stop considering ourselves special on the level of physicalities, half our
sorrows will disappear by themselves. From sickness to death, events to
accidents; what happens to others, can always happen to us and our beloved
ones too... Then what's the point in grieving about them for so long?
- Deep Trivedi
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
- Charles Dickens
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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