Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Quotations
Suffering
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
