I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Acheron"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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"
