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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem .

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.