Quotations
Suffering

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- 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

Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts

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