„To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.“

— Viktor E. Frankl

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„Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts — suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure. Better have pain than paralysis!“
— Florence Nightingale
„All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.“
— Viktor E. Frankl
„Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.“
— Meister Eckhart
„Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.“
— Paulo Coelho
„We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.“
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross