To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Suffering
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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 "Meister Eckhart"
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
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 "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
