To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

We are more sensible of one little touch of a surgeon's lancet than of twenty wounds with a sword in the heat of fight.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically but the senselessness of suffering.

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.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.