Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
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"
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"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
