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Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.