Necessary Suffering Quotes

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.