It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Suffering
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
-Meister Eckhart "Meister Eckhart"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
