Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership which is love s opposite

Waiting is painful Forgetting is painful But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love