Suffering Quote by Nancy Farmer

“Bodies feel pain; only the mind can suffer. Indeed, it’s possible to be in pain and yet not suffer at all.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal

Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.

— Anonymous

“We do not ‘suffer,’” said Garad. “We endure.”

— Christie Golden

“Suffering is emotional while pain is a physical sensation.”

— Noah Elkrief

“…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

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

— Jhene Aiko

“pain is fact; suffering is optional”

— Paul Pearsall

“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like…

— Kate Elliott

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

— Kate Jacobs

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

— Gautama Buddha

“pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.”

— Rick Hanson