Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Suffering
...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"
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
