Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain

Samuel Johnson

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Franz Kafka

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Michelangelo

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Samuel Johnson

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Arthur Schopenhauer