“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”

“He who learns must suffer.” 

“The reward of suffering is experience.

“Suffering brings experience.” 

“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.” 

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Joy and suffering are the fruit of right and wrong thinking. Suffering, especially, is mostly self-manufactured; we are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.

“Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.” 

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.” 

“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.” 

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.” 

I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” 

“For what is most dreaded is not the agony of dying, nor yet the strange impossibility that when we do not exist we should suffer for not existing. What is dreaded is the defeat of a present will directed upon life and its various undertakings.”

“What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.”

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

“I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.” 

“I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” 

“One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases – and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the path.”