The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

For there are ... sufferings which have no tongues.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

You're down now ... it doesn't matter. What does matter is to taste your own ashes.

Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the suffering of others.

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