We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Quotations
Suffering
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"
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
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
