Quotations
Suffering
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
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
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
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
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
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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