Ive suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. – Richard Armour
Suffering is part of the divine idea. – Henry Ward Beecher
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71 – Bible
Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. – Bible
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. – Christian Nevell Bovee
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton
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. – Albert Camus
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. – Thomas Carlyle
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. – Claudius
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. – Edward Dahlberg
Suffering is nothing. Its all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. – Alphonse Daudet
I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson
