We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
-Meister Eckhart "Meister Eckhart"
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Acheron"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
