Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Quotations
Suffering
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller
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"
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
