Quotations
Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
- A Spiritual Leader
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti
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