Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying; once gone, what is left is only an object.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.
Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man.
It matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.[Я не тебе поклонился, я всему страданию человеческому поклонился.]
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
