People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.
Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.