Character Quote by David Brooks

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

“Suffering teaches joy.”

— Sonia Rumzi

“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We all must…

— Brent Green

“Enduring suffering can become a gift because it is an opportunity for us to grow from who we are into who God intends for…

— Darci J. Steiner

“suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we want to be loved.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”

— Neal Shusterman

“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it.”

— Brian Staveley

“To you I speak with much hesitation about suffering. . . . But there is an introduction to suffering which comes with the birthpains…

— Thomas Kelly

“Suffering is the sorrow of joy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savor the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon. Those moments when everything-taste,…

— Juliana Buhring

“To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one, wherever that…

— James Allen