God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Suffering
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
-Scriptures "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
