People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

—Unknown

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

—Unknown

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

—Unknown

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

—Unknown

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

—Unknown

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

—Thucydides

I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

—Oscar Wilde

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

—Louise Bogan

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

—Joseph Addison

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel