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I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply…

— Elizabeth Wein

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

— Marianne Williamson

You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world.But then, you read.It was books that taught me that the…

— Alec Baldwin

“profound trauma—and clearly this would qualify—can transform a person’s entire character, you know: turn a strong person into a trembling wreck, a happy nature…

— Tana French

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

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go…

— Anderson Cooper

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey…

— Marion Woodman

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

— Philip K. Dick

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other…

— Robert Creeley

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

— Mick Jagger

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens…

— James A. Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught…

— James Baldwin