Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Suffering
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
-A Spiritual Leader "Guru Tegh Bahadur"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
