Depression Quote by Diane Wood Middlebrook

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“Maybe God had needed her to suffer so she could understand the suffering of others and help them heal.”

— Paige Dearth

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

— Leston Havens

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged…

— Mary Balogh

“It is entirely possible to feel someone’s pain, acknowledge their suffering, hold it in our hands and support them with our presence without depleting…

— Rana Awdish

“Suffering goes beyond pain. It resides in the mind. It results from how we interpret what happens to us, not from the situation itself.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal

“Many people are unable to get rid of their pain completely because they haven't confronted themselves about their suffering.”

— Catherine Carrigan

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have a…

— Harold S. Kushner

“She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...”

— Sara Foster