To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Suffering
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
-Mother Teresa
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
"Shadowlands"
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
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"
