There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

We have two lives, ..., the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

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

Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the suffering of others.

You're down now ... it doesn't matter. What does matter is to taste your own ashes.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

For there are ... sufferings which have no tongues.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is blessed who ne'er was born.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Never to have suffered would have been never to have been blessed.

The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

The Four Noble Truths: Suffering, the origins of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path which leads to the cessation of suffering.