“The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.”

“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”

Barry Unsworth book Sacred Hunger

“War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm.”

Epicurus (-341–-269 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

“To suffer is to produce knowledge.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.”

Robyn Carr American writer

“In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French