For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.