Quote by Augustine of Hippo

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.”

— Jonathan Rosen

“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”

— Djuna Barnes

“The measure of a society, he said, is how well it transforms pain and suffering into something worthwhile.”

— Eric Weiner

“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”

— Emma Thompson

“If there's a sickness in America, it's the lack of materialism.”

— J.P. Donleavy

“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.”

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they’d…

— Noah Gordon

“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”

— Barry Unsworth

“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse”

— Plato

“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Could illness and pain hold greater purpose than we imagine?”

— Cindee Snider Re