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

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.