God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
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"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
