“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
— John Keats“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
— Dodie Smith“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
— Charles Dickens“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
— Alexandre Dumas“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
— Ann Voskamp“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”
— Becca Fitzpatrick“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
— C.S. Lewis“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”
— Criss Jami“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine sovereignty. All suffering comes within the broader context of the sovereignty of God.”
— R.C. Sproul“Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne čuje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.”
— Johann Baptist Metz“he who will not economize will have to agonize”
— Confucius“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj“Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
— Madeleine L'Engle“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”
— Gautama Buddha“Spare me the Deepak Chopra tribute.”
— Vincent Panettiere“Is this nuclear physics or are you ordering a cake?It's a cake. You eat it,,you don't frame it.”
— Vincent Panettiere