It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

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

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.