“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

“Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.”

“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

“We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.”

“To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

And as Oscar Wilde puts it, “I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”

“A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available”

“In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”

“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. “