Head Quote by Giles Foden

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

— Suzanne Segal

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

— William Shakespeare

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her.…

— Nhat Hanh

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the…

— Rollo May

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

— Maya Tiwari

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,…

— James Allen

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

— Ramana Maharshi

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

— Pankaj Mishra

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 occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

— Brad Warner

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes…

— Marcel Proust

The chief cause of suffering for human beings is an inability to have things be the way they are.

— Ritu Ghatourey