Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
- Antonio Porchia
It is the law of nature that when adversity strikes, nature invariably provides
us with the strength to endure that pain. Look for yourself, we are not that
disheartened with the pains of present...but are worried sick about the pains to
come in future.
- Deep Trivedi
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
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