We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.[On ne guérit d’une souffrance qu’à condition de l’éprouver pleinement.]
We all suffer from dreams.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
To rest in our own suffering is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.
There is often more pleasure in suffering than in happiness; look at the martyrs!
The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
Perhaps I know best why man is the only animal that laughs: he alone suffers so excruciatingly that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.[Страдание и боль всегда обязательны для широкого сознания и глубокого сердца.]
