“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As stone suffers of stoniness, As light of its shiningness, As birds of their wingedness, So I of my whoness. And what… — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
We have to go through pain and suffering to be better and become stronger like a seed dropped in dirt covered with… — Christian Vasquez Copy Share Image
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true.… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
