Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars!

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

He had learned that every known physical pain was bearable; if one knew beforehand exactly what was going to happen to one, one stood it as a surgical operation-for instance, the extraction of a tooth.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

Even pain Pricks to livelier living.