You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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 unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

By suffering comes wisdom.