Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
- Arthur J. Russell
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
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
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
- Paulo Coelho
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