Pleasure Quote by Colm Toibin

I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the…

— Judy Collins

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

— Frank Ocean

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it…

— Madonna Ciccone

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy.

— Henry Suso

I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

— John Tavener

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

— Evelyn Waugh

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

— Judith Jamison

“…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence…

— Lydia Millet