All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
Quotations
Suffering
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
The root of all our miseries is not being mentally prepared for a situation. I cannot
understand, why don't you accept that what happens to others, can always
happen to you as well!
-Deep Trivedi
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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"
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
