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
"Great Expectations"
Quotations
Suffering
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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 "J. Krishnamurti"
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
