“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

“There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”

“Just as "pluck" comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.”

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

“Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.”

“Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?”

“Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”

“No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.”