What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Injustice in the end produces independence.