Quotations
Suffering
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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