Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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