Quotations
Suffering
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
- Paulo Coelho
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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
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