Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
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 a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.