Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Quotations
Suffering
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
...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"
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
