Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Quotations
Suffering
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"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
-Mother Teresa
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The root of all our miseries is not being mentally prepared for a situation. I cannot
understand, why don't you accept that what happens to others, can always
happen to you as well!
-Deep Trivedi
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
