Quotes by World Suffering If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. Simone Weil world-suffering want-something thinking It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. Susan Sontag world-suffering aggravation suffering Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. Tennessee Williams world-suffering humor funny Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt world-suffering distance missing-you The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. Thomas Merton suffering-pain world-suffering people The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. William Faulkner world-suffering salvation men «12