God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
"Shadowlands"
Quotations
Suffering
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
