I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.
How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
