What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Christianity makes suffering contagious

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply.
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man