It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time — is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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