We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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