Quotations
Suffering
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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
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
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
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
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
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