Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Suffering
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
