God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
