Carl Jung Quotes

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

As long as one suffers one lives.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

You are here for a reason.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

We must learn to suffer more.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.