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

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.

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.

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

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

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.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

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 is part of the divine idea.