„It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.“
— Viktor E. Frankl
„The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.“
— Jane Austen
„The cross is not random suffering, but necessary suffering. The cross is not suffering that stems from natural existence; it is the suffering that comes from being Christian.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer