“Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don’t, then everything is over with here, once and for all.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. Yo…”— Martin Luther King Jr., americanrhetoric.com
“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”— Dodie Smith, amazon.com
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior.”— Romain Gary, amazon.com
“We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“You have been in every line I have ever read…the…poor heart you wounded…You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since,—on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets…I associate you…”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Sometimes things aren’t what they appear. We all have hurts that we don’t show.”— Charles Sheehan-Miles, amazon.com
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, imdb.com
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“You desire to know the art of living? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”— Henri-Frédéric Amiel, goodreads.com
“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”— H.G. Wells, amazon.com
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”— Ben Okri, amazon.com