To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
...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"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
