One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and…

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

— Sharon Salzberg

“The world, whatever we might think about it terrified by its vastness and by our helplessness in the face of it, embittered by its…

— Wisława Szymborska

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm not someone who seeks out stories of people who are suffering. I think they just kind of find me.

— Charlie Plummer

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work…

— Anonymous

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think…

— Lucinda Williams

I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn…

— Gregory David Roberts

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what they're doing…

— Aokigahara29

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think…

— Steve-O

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

— Meshell Ndegeocello

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art…

— Marilyn Manson

“It isn't suffering that leads to hopelessness. It's suffering you think you can't control.”

— Angela Duckworth

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very…

— Julie Christie

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not…

— Anonymous