Suffering is life.

which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.

On our Earth we can only love with suffering….we cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love