The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.