VALUE OF SUFFERING
Albert Camus wrote: Losing a loved one, uncertainty about what we are — these are deprivations that give rise to our worst suffering. We may be idealists, but we need what is tangible. It is by the presence of persons and things that we believe we recognize certainty. But does it truly matter what we lack when what we have is not used up? So many things are susceptible of being loved that surely no discouragement can be final. To know how to suffer, to know how to love, and, when everything collapses, to take everything up once more, simply, the richer from suffering, almost happy from the awareness of our misery. Youthful Writings (Knopf)
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