Suffering teaches joy.

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.…

— Jim Morrison

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you…

— Assia Petricelli

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection…

— Naomi Ragen

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.…

— Lynsay Sands

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

— Stephen Colbert

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

— Daniel K Judd

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive…

— Ravi Zacharias

“Because we live in a fallen world, we suffer. But those of us who know Jesus are never alone in the suffering, that is…

— Melissa Turner Lee

“Maybe love, like suffering, is relative. ”

— Dan Chaon