Quotations
Suffering
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
- Sigmund Freud
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
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
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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
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
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