The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid read more

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of read more

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam read more

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae
metuant.]

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men read more

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.