Quotations
Suffering

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen

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

When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Anonymous

The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette

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

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