Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.