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Man cannot remake himself without suffering.
For he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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-Alexis Carrel
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of
love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling
the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life
implies.
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-Erich Fromm
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It is not actual suffering but a taste of
better things which excites people to revolt.
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-Eric Hoffer
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*The nature of man is
such that he craves for eternal or permenent (sic) happiness. But the
things from which he hopes to derive such happiness are themselves
impermanent. Happiness or satisfaction derived from impermanent or
ephemeral things would surely be temporary and therefore fall short
of his expectation, that is, permanent happiness. Hence his
suffering.
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-David Kalupahana
Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical
Analysis, 1976
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Those who do not know how to weep with
their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
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-Golda Meir
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*The day you are
fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in
good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is.
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-Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté, as told to
D.T. Niane
Sundiata : An Epic of Old Mali, 1960
"Exile"
G.D. Pickett, trans., 1965
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*[A]ny form of swift
physical annihilation is preferable to the inconceivable horror of a
living death.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to John Temple Graves (newspaper columnist), July
5, 1936
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 1, "Arrival in America to We the Living (1926-1937)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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One often learns more from ten days of
agony than from ten years of contentment.
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-Merle Shain
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