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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 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.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.