Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Suffering
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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"
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The root cause of all miseries lie hidden in "Me and Mine". If it is my wealth, then
the pain of losing it, if it is my body, then the affliction of sickness... Whereas in
reality, there is nothing yours other than the feeling of your "Being".
-Deep Trivedi
