Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
We can’t learn without pain.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.