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  • Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

    John Green

  • Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

    Charles Dickens

  • But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

    Hans Christian Andersen

  • The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

    Rumi

  • If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

    Paulo Coelho

  • Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

    Paulo Coelho

  • One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.

    John Lennon

  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

    John Keats

  • Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

    Kahlil Gibran

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