Affection Quote by Jerry Spinelli

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning…

— 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 was a love and empathy for those who suffered, for what they endured and what he might bring to bear.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel…

— Paulo Coelho

“Along with the pain, an even greater Love and Compassion seemed to gently hold all the suffering of the world in an embrace.
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— Katherine Parker

“we who have travelled much and loved much: we who have -- I will not say suffered for we have always recognized through suffering…

— Lawrence Durrell

“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

“I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.”

— Angela Carter

“For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?”

— Walt Whitman

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”

— Virgil